Abbreviations
| AoF | Altorientalische Forschungen |
| BNP | Biblotheque nationale de Paris |
| CPJ 1–3 | Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum 1–3 |
| CPJ 4 | Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum 4 |
| DI | Die Inschriften |
| FGrH | Fragmente der griechischen Historiker |
| FIRA | Fontes Iuris Romani Anteiustiniani |
| IGRR | Inscriptiones graecae ad res romanas pertinentes |
| JBL | Journal of Biblical Literature |
| JIGRE | Jewish Inscriptions of Graeco-Roman Egypt |
| JJS | Journal of Jewish Studies |
| JSJ | Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Period |
| MS | Reinhold Merkelbach and Josef Stauber (see Bibliography) |
| RB | Revue Biblique |
| P.Brit.Mus. | Catalogue of the Demotic Papyri in the British Museum |
| P.Köln inv. 20380 | Kölner Papyri XII |
| P.Lond. III | Greek Papyri in the British Museum III |
| P.Macq. inv. 586 (1) | The Macquarie Papyri (published in Gronewald, 2011; see Bibliography) |
| P.Oxy. XII | The Oxyrhynchus Papyri XXII |
| P.Polit.Iud. | Urkunden des Politeuma der Juden von Herakleopolis (144/3–133/2 v. Chr.) |
| PBZ | Miriam Pucci Ben Zeev, 2005 (see Bibliography) |
| PDM | Papyri Demoticae Magicae |
| PGM | Papyri Graecae Magicae |
| Pap.Eleph.Eng. | The Elephantine Papyri in English |
| PSI | Pubblicazioni della Società italiana per la papyri ricerca dei papyri greci e latini in Egitto: Papiri greci e latini |
| PW | Herbert W. Parke and D. E. W. Wormell (see Bibliography) |
| SAOC | The Mechanics of Egyptian Magical Practice. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 54 |
| SBL | Society of Biblical Literature |
| SCI | Scripta Classica Israelica |
| SEG | Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum |