Abbreviations
| AB | The Anchor Bible |
| ABD | Anchor Bible Dictionary, D.N. Freedman et al., eds., 6 vols. New York 19 |
| ACEBT | Amsterdamse Cahiers voor Exegese van de Bijbel en zijn Tradities 26, 2011. |
| ADPV | Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins |
| AIAS | Bulletin of Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society |
| ANEP | Ancient Near East in Pictures Relating to the Old Testament. J.B. Pritchard, ed., 2nd ed. Princeton 1969 |
| ANES Sup | Ancient Near Eastern Studies |
| ATD | Das Alte Testament Deutsch |
| BA | Biblical Archaeologist |
| BARev | Biblical Archaeology Review |
| BASOR | Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research |
| BCT | The Bible and Critical Theory |
| BHS | Biblia Hebraica Stutgartensia, K. Elliger and K. Rudolph, eds., Stuttgart 1997 |
| BKAT | Biblischer Kommentar Altes Testament |
| BRL | Biblisches Reallexikon, 2nd. ed., HAT erste Reihe, Tübingen 1977 |
| BSTS | Bible Study Textbook Series |
| BW | The Biblical World |
| BZAW | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft |
| BZHT | Beiträge zur Historischen Theologie |
| BZNW | Beihefte zur Zeitschrtift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft |
| CANE | Civilistions of the Ancient Near East, J. Sasson ed. 4 vols. New York. 1995 |
| CB | The Century Bible |
| CBQ | Catholic Biblical Quarterly |
| CCSL | Corpus Christianorum Series Latina |
| CQS | Companion to the Qumran Scrolls |
| COT | Commentaar op het Oude Testament |
| DB | Die Bibel |
| DF | Damaszener Forschungen |
| EAEHL | Encyclopaedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, M. AviYonah, eds. 4 vols. London 1975 |
| EBC | Everyman’s Bible Commentary |
| EDSS | Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls |
| EHCOT | The Englishman’s Hebrew Concordance of the Old Testament, Wigram George V., Peabody 2003 |
| FOTL | The Forms of the Old Testament Literature |
| HALOT | The Hebrew and Arameic Lexicon of the Old Testament, Koehler L. Baumgartner W. and J.J. Stamm, trans. And ed. M.E.J. Richardson. 2 vols. Leiden 2001 |
| HAT | Handbuch zum Alten Testament |
| Herm | Hermeneia |
| HCOT | Historical commentary on the Old Testament |
| IAHI | International Archives of the History of Ideas |
| HSM | Harvard Semitic Monographs |
| ICC | The International Critical Commentary |
| Int | Interpretation |
| IOSCS | The International Organisation for Septuagint and Cognate Studies |
| JANES | Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society |
| JAOS | Journal of the American Oriental Society |
| JBL | Journal of Biblical Literature |
| JETS | Journal of the Evangelical Theology Society |
| JHS | Journal of Hebrew Scriptures |
| JIAT | Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University |
| JSOT Sup | Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series |
| JSP Sup | Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Sup |
| KDCOT | Keil and Delitzsch, Commentary Old Testament |
| KJOTS | Korean Journal of Old Testament Studies |
| KJV | King James Version |
| LAI | Library of Ancient Israel |
| LeidV | Leidse Vertaling |
| LHBOTS | Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies |
| LSTS | Library of Second Temple Studies |
| LuthV | Lutherse Vertaling |
| LXX | Septuaginta |
| MT | Masoretic Text |
| NASB | New American Standard Bible |
| NCB | New Century Bible |
| NEA | Near Eastern Archeology |
| NEB | The New English Bible |
| NBV | Nieuwe Bijbel Vertaling (2004) |
| NIB | New Interpreter’s Bible |
| NIBC | New International Biblical Commentary |
| NICOT | The New International Commentary on the Old Testament |
| NIDOTTE | New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis. Edited by W.A. VanGemeren. 5 vols. Grand Rapids. 1997 |
| NIV | New International Version |
| NRSV | New Revised Standard Version |
| NSBT | New Studies in Biblical theology |
| NV | Nieuwe Verttaling (1951) |
| OEANE | The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archeology in the Near East, J.M. Meyers ed. New York. 1997 |
| OHS | Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint |
| OTG | Old Testament Guides |
| OTL | Old Testament Library |
| OTRM | Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs |
| P | Papyrus |
| PA | Palaestina Antiqua |
| POT | De Prediking van het Oude Testament |
| QD | Questiones Disputatae |
| RA | Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale |
| RC | Religion Compass |
| RdQ | Revue de Qumran |
| ResQ | Restoration Quarterly |
| REB | Revised English Bible |
| ROT | Reading the Old Testament commentary series |
| RSH | Radboud Studies in Humanities |
| SBB | The Soncino Books of the Bible |
| SBLDS | Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series |
| SeptCS | Septuagint and Cognate Studies |
| SHBC | Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary |
| SHG | Smart History Guide to Ancient Near Eastern Art |
| SJOT | Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament |
| STDJ | Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah |
| SEUJA | Southeast University Journal of Architecture |
| SV | Staten Vertaling |
| Sym | Symmachus |
| Syr | Syriac |
| Targ | Targum |
| TB | Tyndale Bulletin |
| tca BHS | text critical apparatus Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia |
| TDNT | Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, G. Kittel and G. Friedrich eds. Trans. G.W. Bromiley, Abridged in one vol. 1985 |
| TDOT | Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, G.J. Botterweck and H. Ringgren eds. Trans. J.T. Willis, G.W. Bromiley and D.E. Green, 8 vols. Grand Rapids 1974– |
| TSDSS | Thematic Studies on the Dead Sea Scrolls |
| TWAT | Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Alten Testament |
| VTSup | Vetus Testamentum, Supplements |
| VT | Vetus Testamentum |
| Vulg | Vulgate |
| WBC | World Biblical Commentary |
| WUNT | Wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament |