Abbreviations
| AB | The Anchor Bible |
| ABRL | Anchor Bible Reference Library |
| ABS | Archaeology and Biblical Studies |
| AKA | Annals of the Kings of Assyria |
| ANE | Ancient near east |
| APY Lands | Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, Australia |
| ASHE | Association for the Study of Higher Education |
| BDB | Brown, Francis, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament |
| BHS | Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia |
| Bib | Biblica |
| BibInt | Biblical Interpretation |
| BJS | Brown Judaic Studies |
| BSJS | Brill’s Series in Jewish Studies |
| CBQ | Catholic Biblical Quarterly |
| CEB | Common English Bible |
| CSSH | Comparative Studies in Society and History |
| DCH | Dictionary of Classical Hebrew |
| EANEC | Explorations in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations |
| EBR | Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception |
| ER | Encyclopedia of Religion |
| FCB | Feminist Companion to the Bible |
| HALOT | The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament |
| HB | Hebrew Bible |
| ISV | International Standard Version |
| JANER | Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions |
| JANESCU | Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society of Columbia University |
| JBQ | Jewish Bible Quarterly |
| JBRec | Journal of the Bible and Its Reception |
| JFSR | Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion |
| JNSL | Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages |
| JPS | Jewish Publication Society |
| JSOT | Journal for the Study of the Old Testament |
| JSOTSup | Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series |
| KJV | King James Version |
| LAB | Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum |
| LHBOTS | The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies |
| LXX | Septuagint |
| MT | Masoretic Text |
| NEB | New English Bible |
| NICOT | New International Commentary on the Old Testament |
| NRSV | New Revised Standard Version |
| NJPS | New Jewish Publication Society version |
| NKJV | New King James Version |
| OT | Old Testament |
| OTE | Old Testament Essays |
| OTL | Old Testament Library |
| PLOS | Public Library of Science |
| Proof | Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History |
| SBL | Society of Biblical Literature |
| SemeiaSt | Semeia Studies |
| SHANE | Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East |
| SJOT | Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament |
| TDOT | Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament |
| UNCRC | United Nations Commission on the Rights of the Child |
| WBC | Word Biblical Commentary |