Abbreviations
Abbreviations generally follow the conventions of The SBL Handbook of Style, 2nd ed. (Atlanta: SBL, 2014), §§8.4.1–2. For abbreviations of papyri, see https://papyri.info/docs/checklist. For abbreviations of inscriptions, see G. H. R. Horsley and J. A. L. Lee, “A Preliminary Checklist of Abbreviations of Greek Epigraphical Volumes,” Epigraphica 56 (1994): 129–169.
| AB | Anchor Bible |
| ABD | D. N. Freedman, ed., Anchor Bible Dictionary, 6 vols. (New York: Doubleday, 1992) |
| ABG | Arbeiten zur Bibel und ihrer Geschichte |
| ABRL | Anchor Bible Reference Library |
| ACM | M. W. Meyer and R. Smith, eds., Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994); repr. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999) |
| AcOr | Acta Orientalia |
| ActaSS | Bollandist Society, Acta Sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur (Antwerp, 1643–) |
| AfOB | Archiv für Orientforschung: Beiheft |
| AGJU | Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums |
| AJEC | Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity |
| AKZ | A. M. Kropp, ed. and trans., Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte, 3 vols. (Brussels: Édition de la Fondation égyptologique reine Élisabeth, 1930–1931) |
| AmJT | American Journal of Theology |
| AnBib | Analecta Biblica |
| ANF | A. Roberts, J. Donaldson, and A. C. Coxe, eds., The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325, 10 vols. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Co., 1885–1896) |
| ANRW | H. Temporini and W. Haase, eds., Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschischte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung (Berlin: De Gruyter: 1972–) |
| ANTC | Abingdon New Testament Commentaries |
| APF | Archiv für Papyrusforschung |
| ApocNT | J. K. Elliott, The Apocryphal New Testament: A Collection of Apocryphal Christian Literature in an English Translation Based on M. R. James (Oxford: Clarendon, 1993) |
| ARG | Archiv für Religionsgeschichte |
| ASE | Annali di storia dell’esegesi |
| ASNU | Acta Seminarii Neotestamentici Upsaliensis |
| ATANT | Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments |
| ATD | Das Alte Testament Deutsch |
| AThR | Anglican Theological Review |
| AYB | Anchor Yale Bible |
| BASP | Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists |
| BAV | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana |
| BBB | Bonner biblische Beiträge |
| BDAG | W. Bauer, F. W. Danker, W. F. Arndt, and F. W. Gingrich, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000) |
| BDF | F. Blass, A. Debrunner, and R. W. Funk, A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961) |
| BECNT | Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament |
| BegC | F. J. Foakes-Jackson and K. Lake, eds., The Beginnings of Christianity, part 1: The Acts of the Apostles, 5 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1922–1933) |
| BEHER | Bibliothèque de l’École des hautes études: Sciences religieuses |
| BETL | Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium |
| BHG | F. Halkin, ed., Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca, 3rd ed., 3 vols. (Brussels: Societé des Bollandistes, 1986) |
| BHT | Beiträge zur historischen Theologie |
| Bib | Biblica |
| BibInt | Biblical Interpretation Series |
| BIFAO | Bulletin de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale |
| BJRL | Bulletin of the John Rylands Library |
| BKAT | Biblischer Kommentar, Altes Testament |
| BL | British Library |
| BM | S. Michel, Die magischen Gemmen im Britischen Museum, 2 vols. (London: British Museum, 2001) |
| BnF | Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| BNM | Biblioteca Nazionale Marziana |
| BPCS | Biblical Performance Criticism Series |
| BR | Biblical Research |
| BSGRT | Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana |
| BSNA | Biblical Scholarship in North America |
| BTB | Biblical Theology Bulletin |
| BTS | Biblical Tools and Studies |
| BTZ | Berliner theologische Zeitschrift |
| Budé | Collection des universités de France, publiée sous le patronage de l’Association Guillaume Budé |
| BWANT | Beiträge zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und Neuen Testament |
| BZAW | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft |
| BZNW | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft |
| CBd | The Campbell Bonner Magical Gems Database, |
| CBET | Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology |
| CBQ | Catholic Biblical Quarterly |
| CBQMS | Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series |
| CCJSup | Supplements to Cambridge Classical Journal |
| CCSA | Corpus Christianorum: Series Apocryphorum |
| CCSL | Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina |
| CCTC | Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries |
| CdE | Chronique d’Égypte |
| CEB | Common English Bible |
| ClAnt | Classical Antiquity |
| ClQ | Classical Quarterly |
| CNS | Cristianesimo nella storia |
| CNT | Commentaire du Nouveau Testament |
| CP | Classical Philology |
| CRINT | Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum |
| CurBR | Currents in Biblical Research |
| CurTM | Currents in Theology and Mission |
| DCLS | Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies |
| DDD | K. van der Toorn, B. Becking, and P. W. van der Horst, eds., Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999) |
| DJG | J. B. Green, J. K. Brown, and N. Perrin, eds., Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, 2nd ed. (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2013) |
| DNP | H. Cancik and H. Schneider, eds., Der neue Pauly: Enzyklopädie der Antike, 16 vols. in 19 (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1996–2003) |
| DOP | Dumbarton Oaks Papers |
| EBR | H.-J. Klauck, et al., eds., Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009–) |
| EC | Early Christianity |
| ECC | Eerdmans Critical Commentary |
| ECF | Early Church Fathers |
| ECM | Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung, Novum Testamentum Graecum: Editio Critica Maior (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1997–) |
| ECR | Eastern Churches Review |
| EJL | Early Judaism and Its Literature |
| EKKNT | Evangelisch-katholischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament |
| ELTG² | H. Hempelmann and U. Swarat, eds., Evangelisches Lexikon für Theologie und Gemeinde, 2nd ed. (Holzerlingen: SCM R. Brockhaus, 2017–) |
| ETL | Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses |
| EvT | Evangelische Theologie |
| EWNT | H. Balz and G. Schneider, eds., Exegetisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament, 3 vols. (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1978–1983) |
| FAT | Forschungen zum Alten Testament |
| FB | Forschung zur Bibel |
| FBBS | Facet Books, Biblical Series |
| FF | Foundations and Facets |
| FGH | F. Jacoby, ed., Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (Leiden: Brill, 1954–1964) |
| FRLANT | Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments |
| GA | Gregory-Aland, https://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/liste |
| GCS | Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten [drei] Jahrhunderte |
| GEMF | C. A. Faraone and S. Torallas Tovar, eds., Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies: Text and Translation, vol. 1, California Classical Studies 9 (Berkeley: California Classical Studies, 2022) |
| GLRBP | E. A. Sophocles, Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1914) |
| GMA | R. D. Kotansky, Greek Magical Amulets: The Inscribed Gold, Silver, Copper, and Bronze Lamellae, part 1: Published Texts of Known Provenance, Papyrologica Coloniensia 22/1 (Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1994) |
| GMPT | H. D. Betz, ed., The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, vol. 1: Texts, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992) |
| GR | Greece and Rome |
| GRBS | Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies |
| HBT | Horizons in Biblical Theology |
| HDA | H. Bächtold-Stäubli, ed., with E. Hoffmann-Krayer, Handwörterbuch des deutschen Aberglaubens, 3rd ed., 10 vols. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2000) |
| HNT | Handbuch zum Neuen Testament |
| HR | History of Religions |
| HSCP | Harvard Studies in Classical Philology |
| HT | Hebrew text |
| HTKNT | Herders theologischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament |
| HTLS | E. Bons, ed., Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020–) |
| HTR | Harvard Theological Review |
| HTS | Harvard Theological Studies |
| ICC | International Critical Commentary |
| ICUR | G. B. de Rossi, ed., Inscriptiones christianae urbis Romae (Rome: Officina Libraria Pontificia, 1857–1888) |
| IEJ | Israel Exploration Journal |
| Int | Interpretation |
| JAC | Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum |
| JANER | Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions |
| JAOS | Journal of the American Oriental Society |
| JBL | Journal of Biblical Literature |
| JECS | Journal of Early Christian Studies |
| JGRChJ | Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism |
| JHS | Journal of Hellenic Studies |
| JJS | Journal of Jewish Studies |
| JNES | Journal of Near Eastern Studies |
| JR | Journal of Religion |
| JSHRZ | Jüdische Schriften aus hellenistisch-römischer Zeit |
| JSHRZSup | Supplements to Jüdische Schriften aus hellenistisch-römischer Zeit |
| JSJ | Journal for the Study of Judaism |
| JSJSup | Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism |
| JSNT | Journal for the Study of the New Testament |
| JSNTSup | Supplements to Journal for the Study of the New Testament |
| JSOTSup | Supplements to Journal for the Study of the Old Testament |
| JSPSup | Supplements to Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha |
| JTI | Journal of Theological Interpretation |
| JTS | Journal of Theological Studies |
| JWCI | Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes |
| KAL | Kommentare zur apokryphen Literatur |
| KAT | Kommentar zum Alten Testament |
| KEK | Kritisch-exegetischer Kommentar über das Neuen Testament (Meyer-Kommentar) |
| KJV | King James Version |
| Kyp | The Kyprianos Magical Text Database, https://www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/the-database/ |
| L&N | J. P. Louw and E. A. Nida, eds., Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Based on Semantic Domains, 2nd ed. (New York: United Bible Societies, 1989) |
| LAECG | J. Spier, Late Antique and Early Christian Gems, 2nd ed., Spätantike—Frühes Christentum—Byzanz, Kunst im Ersten Jahrtausand B/20 (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2013) |
| LCL | Loeb Classical Library |
| LD | Lectio Divina |
| LDAB | Leuven Database of Ancient Books, https://www.trismegistos.org/ldab/ |
| LEC | Library of Early Christianity |
| LIM | A. Mastrocinque, Les intailles magiques du département des Monnaies Médailles et Antiques (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2014) |
| LNTS | Library of New Testament Studies |
| LSJ | H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, and H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon, 9th ed., with rev. suppl. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1996) |
| LXX | Septuagint |
| MMA | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Mnem | Mnemosyne |
| MnemSup | Supplements to Mnemosyne |
| MT | Masoretic Text |
| NA²⁷ | B. Aland, K. Aland, J. Karavidopoulos, C. M. Martini, and B. M. Metzger, eds., Novum Testamentum Graece, 27th ed. (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1993) |
| NA²⁸ | B. Aland, K. Aland, J. Karavidopoulos, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger, and H. Strutwolf, eds., Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th ed. (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2012) |
| NASB | New American Standard Bible |
| NedTT | Nederlands theologisch tijdschrift |
| Neot | Neotestamentica |
| NETS | A. Pietersma and B. G. Wright III, eds., A New English Translation of the Septuagint (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) |
| NICNT | New International Commentary on the New Testament |
| NIDB | K. D. Sakenfeld, ed., New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, 5 vols. (Nashville: Abingdon, 2006–2009) |
| NIGTC | New International Greek Testament Commentary |
| NovT | Novum Testamentum |
| NovTSup | Supplements to Novum Testamentum |
| NRSV | New Revised Standard Version |
| NT | New Testament |
| NTAbh | Neutestamentliche Abhandlungen |
| NTAMNS | T. Burke and B. Landau, eds., New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, 3 vols. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016–2023) |
| NTD | Das Neue Testament Deutsch |
| NTL | New Testament Library |
| NTOA | Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus |
| NTS | New Testament Studies |
| OBO | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis |
| OBT | Overtures to Biblical Theology |
| OCT | Oxford Classical Texts |
| OECS | Oxford Early Christian Studies |
| OECT | Oxford Early Christian Texts |
| OED | Oxford English Dictionary, https://www.oed.com |
| OLA | Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta |
| ÖNB | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek |
| OrChr | Oriens Christianus |
| OT | Old Testament |
| ÖTK | Ökumenischer Taschenbuch-Kommentar |
| PG | Patrologia Graeca = J.-P. Migne, ed., Patrologiae Cursus Completus: Series Graeca, 162 vols. (Paris, 1857–1886) |
| PGL | G. W. H. Lampe, Patristic Greek Lexicon (Oxford: Clarendon, 1961) |
| PGM | K. Preisendanz and A. Henrichs, eds., Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die griechischen Zauberpapyri, 2nd ed., 2 vols. (Stuttgart: Teubner, 1973–1974) |
| PhA | Philosophia Antiqua |
| Phil | Philologus |
| PL | Patrologia Graeca = J.-P. Migne, ed., Patrologiae Cursus Completus: Series Latina, 217 vols. (Paris, 1844–1864) |
| PRSt | Perspectives in Religious Studies |
| PSB | Princeton Seminary Bulletin |
| PVTG | Pseudepigrapha Veteris Testamenti Graece |
| QD | Quaestiones Disputatae |
| RAC | T. Klauser, et al., eds., Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum (Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1950–) |
| Rahlfs- Hanhart | A. Rahlfs and R. Hanhart, eds., Septuaginta, 2nd ed. (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2006) |
| RAr | Revue archéologique |
| RBén | Revue Bénédictine |
| RBS | Resources for Biblical Study |
| RGRW | Religions in the Graeco-Roman World |
| RSV | Revised Standard Version |
| RTP | Revue de théologie et de philosophie |
| RTR | Reformed Theological Review |
| RVV | Religionsgeschichtliche Versuchen und Vorarbeiten |
| SAAA | Studies on the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles |
| SANt | Studia Aarhusiana Neotestamentica |
| SAPERE | Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam Religionemque pertinentia |
| SBEc | Studia Biblica et Ecclesiastica |
| SBL | Society of Biblical Literature |
| SBLDS | Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series |
| SBLSBS | Society of Biblical Literature Sources for Biblical Study |
| SBLSP | Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers |
| SBLStBL | Society of Biblical Literature Studies in Biblical Literature |
| SBLTT | Society of Biblical Literature Texts and Translations |
| SBS | Stuttgarter Bibelstudien |
| SC | Sources chrétiennes |
| SECA | Studies on Early Christian Apocrypha |
| SemeiaSt | Semeia Studies |
| SHR | Studies in the History of Religions (Numen Book Series) |
| SIG | W. Dittenberger, ed., Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum, 3rd ed., 4 vols. (Leipzig: Hirzel, 1915–1924) |
| SM | R. W. Daniel and F. Maltomini, eds., Supplementum Magicum, 2 vols., Papyrologica Coloniensia 16 (Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990–1992) |
| Smyth | H. W. Smyth, Greek Grammar, rev. G. M. Messing, repr. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956) |
| SNTS | Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas | Society for New Testament Studies |
| SNTSMS | Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series |
| SNTW | Studies of the New Testament and Its World |
| SP | Sacra Pagina |
| SPAW | Sitzungsberichte der preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften |
| SPhiloA | Studia Philonica Annual |
| SSEJC | Studies in Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity |
| STAC | Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum |
| STDJ | Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah |
| StPatr | Studia Patristica |
| SVTP | Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha |
| SymS | Symposium Series |
| TANZ | Texte und Arbeiten zum neutestamentlichen Zeitalter |
| TBN | Themes in Biblical Narrative |
| TBT | The Bible Today |
| TDNT | G. Kittel and G. Friedrich, eds., Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, trans. G. W. Bromiley, 10 vols. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1964–1976) |
| ThTo | Theology Today |
| TJT | Toronto Journal of Theology |
| TK | Texte und Kommentare |
| TLG | Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, https://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/ |
| TLNT | C. Spicq, Theological Lexicon of the New Testament, ed. and trans. J. D. Ernest, 3 vols. (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1994) |
| TLZ | Theologische Literaturzeitung |
| TM | Trismegistos, https://www.trismegistos.org/ |
| TNTC | Tyndale New Testament Commentaries |
| TPINTC | TPI New Testament Commentaries |
| TRu | Theologische Rundschau |
| TSAJ | Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum |
| TTH | Translated Texts for Historians |
| TUGAL | Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur |
| TWNT | G. Kittel and G. Friedrich, eds., Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament, 10 vols. (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1932–1979) |
| TZ | Theologische Zeitschrift |
| UTB | Uni-Taschenbücher |
| VC | Vigiliae Christianae |
| VCSup | Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae |
| WAW | Writings from the Ancient World |
| WBC | Word Biblical Commentary |
| WGRW | Writings from the Greco-Roman World |
| WGRWSup | Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplement Series |
| WMANT | Wissenschaftliche Monographien zum Alten und Neuen Testament |
| WUNT | Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament |
| ZA | Zeitschrift für Assyriologie |
| ZKT | Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie |
| ZNT | Zeitschrift für Neues Testament |
| ZNW | Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche |
| ZPE | Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik |
| ZTK | Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche |
| ZWT | Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Theologie |