1 Primary Sources, Journals, and Series
Abbreviations of primary sources, monograph series, and journals generally follow The SBL Handbook of Style, 2nd ed. (Atlanta, SBL Press, 2014). For documentary sources, I have consulted John F. Oates, William H. Willis, et al., Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets,
2 Texts, Editions, and Translations
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Theodotion |
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Symmachus |
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| A | Codex Alexandrinus |
| B | Codex Vaticanus |
| BHQ | Biblia Hebraica Quinta |
| LXX | Septuagint |
| LXX.D | Septuaginta Deutsch. Das griechische Alte Testament in deutscher Übersetzung. Edited by Wolfgang Kraus and Martin Karrer. 2nd ed. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2009. |
| MT | Masoretic Text |
| NETS | A New English Translation of the Septuagint. Edited by Albert Pietersma and Benjamin G. Wright. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. |
| NJPS | Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures: The New JPS Translation according to the Traditional Hebrew Text |
| NRSV | New Revised Standard Version |
| OG | Old Greek (The earliest recoverable Greek version of a book) |
| Rahlfs | Septuaginta: Id est Vetus Testamentum graece iuxta LXX interpretes. Edited by Alfred Rahlfs. Revised by Robert Hanhart. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2006. |
| S | Syriac |
| SamPent | Samaritan Pentateuch |
| Syh | Syro-Hexapla |
| T | Targum (Reading attested by all extant Pentateuchal Targumim) |
| TO | Targum Onqelos to the Pentateuch |
| TJ | Targum Pseudo-Jonathan to the Pentateuch |
| TN | Targum Neofiti to the Pentateuch |
| V | Vulgate (as defined in the San Girolamo edition) |
| Wevers | Deuteronomium. Edited by John W. Wevers and Udo Quast. 2nd ed. Septuaginta: Vetus Testamentum Graecum Auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum Gottingensis editum 3.2. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006. |
| Ziegler | Isaias. Edited by Joseph Ziegler. Septuaginta: Vetus Testamentum Graecum Auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum Gottingensis editum 14. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1983. |
Abbreviations of the textual witnesses employed in the collation of the editio critica maior of the text of Old Greek Deuteronomy are provided in the Einleitung to Wevers (see above).
3 Reference Works
| BDAG | Danker, Frederick W., Walter Bauer, William F. Arndt, and F. Wilbur Gingrich. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. |
| BDF | Blass, Friedrich, Albert Debrunner, and Robert W. Funk. A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961. |
| BHRG2 | Merwe, Christo H.J. van der, Jackie A. Naudé, and Jan H. Kroeze. A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar. 2nd ed. London: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2017. |
| COS | Hallo, William W., and K. Lawson Younger Jr., eds. The Context of Scripture. 4 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1997–2016. |
| DCH | Clines, David J.A., ed. Dictionary of Classical Hebrew. 9 vols. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 1993–2016. |
| GELS | Muraoka, Takamitsu. A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint. Leuven: Peeters, 2009. |
| GKC | Gesenius, Wilhelm. Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar. Edited by Emil Kautzsch. Translated by Arthur E. Cowley. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1910. |
| Goodwin | Goodwin, William W. Greek Grammar. Revised by Charles Burton Gulick. Boston: Ginn, 1930. |
| HALOT | Koehler, Ludwig, Walter Baumgartner, and Johann J. Stamm. The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament. Translated and edited under the supervision of Mervyn E.J. Richardson. 2 vols. Leiden: Brill, 2001. |
| HTLS | Bons, Eberhard, ed. Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint. Volume 1: Alpha-Gamma. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020. |
| IBHS | Waltke, Bruce K., and Michael O’Connor. An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1990. |
| Joüon | Joüon, Paul. A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew. Translated and revised by Takamitsu Muraoka. 2 vols. Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1991. |
| LSJ | Liddell, Henry George, Robert Scott, Henry Stuart Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon. 9th ed. With revised supplements. Oxford: Clarendon, 1996. |
| Mayser | Mayser, Edwin. Grammatik der griechischen Papyri aus der Ptolemäerzeit. 2 vols. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1906–1933. |
| MGS | Montanari, Franco. The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek. Edited by Madeleine Goh and Chad Schroeder. Leiden: Brill, 2015. |
| MM | Moulton, James H., and George Milligan. The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1929. |
| NGTD | Wevers, John W. Notes on the Greek Text of Deuteronomy. SCS 39. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. |
| Smyth | Smyth, Herbert Weir. Greek Grammar. Revised by Gordon M. Messing. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956. |
| TCHB3 | Tov, Emanuel. Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible. 3rd ed. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 2012. |
| TDOT | Botterweck, G. Johannes, Helmer Ringgren, and Heinz-Josef Fabry, eds. Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament. Translated by John T. Willis et al. 15 vols. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974–2006. |
| THGD | Wevers, John W. Text History of the Greek Deuteronomy. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1978. |
| TLG | Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: A Digital Library of Greek Literature, produced by the University of California. Online: |