Abbreviations
Abbreviations of the names of ancient sources follow the conventions published in The SBL Handbook of Style, 2nd Edition (Atlanta:SBL Press, 2014).
| AB | Anchor Bible |
| ABD | Anchor Bible Dictionary |
| AchHist 15 | Caroline Waerzeggers, The Ezida Temple of Borsippa: Priesthood, Cult, Archive, Achaemenid History 15 (Leiden: NINO), 2010. |
| ATANT | Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments |
| ATD | Das Alte Testament Deutsch |
| AUWE 8 | Karlheinz Kessler, Uruk: Urkunden aus Privathäusern: die Wohnhäuser westlich des Eanna-Tempelbereichs, Teil 1, Ausgrabungen in Uruk-Warka. Endberichte 8 (Mainz am Rhein: Von Zabern, 1991) |
| AfO | Archiv für Orientforschung |
| AfoB | Archiv für Orientforschung: Beiheft |
| AJSR | Association for Jewish Studies Review |
| ANES | Ancient Near Eastern Studies |
| AOAT | Alter Orient und Altes Testament |
| ArOr | Archív Orientální |
| ASTI | Annual of the Swedish Theological Institute |
| BA | Biblical Archaeologist |
| BaM | Baghdader Mitteilungen |
| BAR | Biblical Archaeology Review |
| BASOR | Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research |
| BBB | Bonner biblische Beiträge |
| BBET | Beiträge zur biblischen Exegese und Theologie |
| BETL | Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium |
| BJSUCSD | Biblical and Judaic Studies from the University of California, San Diego |
| BM | tablets in the British Museum |
| BWA(N)T | Beiträge zur Wissenschaft von Alten (und Neuen) Testament |
| BZAW | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamntliche Wissenschaft |
| CAD | The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago |
| Camb. | Johannes N. Strassmaier, Inschriften von Cambyses, König von Babylon (529–521 v. Chr.), Babylonische Texte 8–9 (Leipzig:Pfeiffer, 1890) |
| CBQ | Catholic Biblical Quarterly |
| CBQMS | Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series |
| CHANE | Culture and History of the Ancient Near East |
| ConBOT | Coniectanea Biblica: Old Testament Series |
| CT | Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets |
| Cyr. | Johannes N. Strassmaier, Inschriften von Cyrus, König von Babylon (538–529 v. Chr.), Babylonische Texte 7 (Leipzig:Pfeiffer, 1889) |
| DJD | Discoveries in the Judaean Desert |
| EncJud | Encyclopaedia Judaica |
| ER | Encyclopedia of Religion |
| ErIsr | Eretz-Israel |
| FAT | Forschungen zum Alten Testament |
| HAT | Handbuch zum Alten Testament |
| HBAI | Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel |
| HBD | HarperCollins Bible Dictionary |
| HSM | Harvard Semitic Monographs |
| HTR | Harvard Theological Review |
| HUCA | Hebrew Union College Annual |
| ICC | International Critical Commentary |
| IDBSup | Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible: Supplementary Volume |
| IEJ | Israel Exploration Journal |
| Int | Interpretation |
| JANER | Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religion |
| JANESCU | Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society of Columbia University |
| JAOS | Journal of the American Oriental Society |
| JBL | Journal of Biblical Literature |
| JCS | Journal of Cuneiform Studies |
| JSPSup | Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series |
| JSNT | Journal for the Study of the New Testament |
| JSOT | Journal for the Study of the Old Testament |
| JSOTSup | Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series |
| JSQ | Jewish Studies Quarterly |
| JTS | Journal of Theological Studies |
| KHC | Kurzer Hand-Commentar zum Alten Testament |
| LHBOTS | The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies |
| NABU | Nouvelles Assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires |
| NEA | Near Eastern Archaeology |
| NEAEHL | The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land |
| NIBCOT | New International Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament |
| NICNT | New International Commentary on the New Testament |
| NICOT | New International Commentary on the Old Testament |
| NovT | Novum Testamentum |
| OBO | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis |
| OBO.SA | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, Series Archaeologica |
| OEANE | The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East |
| OIP | Oriental Institute Publications |
| OLA | Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta |
| Or | Orientalia |
| OTL | Old Testament Library |
| PAAJR | Proceedings of the American Academy of Jewish Research |
| PIHANS | Publications de l’Institut historique-archeologique neerlandais de Stamboul |
| RA | Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale |
| RB | Revue biblique |
| RBS | Resources for Biblical Study |
| RevQ | Revue de Qumran |
| SAOC | Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilizations |
| SBLDS | Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series |
| SBLSP | Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers |
| STDJ | Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah |
| SVTQ | St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly |
| TA | Tel Aviv |
| TEBR | Francis Joannès, Textes économique de la Babylonie récente, Études Assyriologiques 5 (Paris:Éditions Recherche sur les civilisations, 1982) |
| TSAJ | Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum |
| VT | Vetus Testamentum |
| VTSup | Supplements to Vetus Testamentum |
| WBC | Word Biblical Commentary |
| WO | Die Welt des Orients |
| WUNT | Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament |
| WZKM | Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes |
| YBC | tablets in the Yale Babylonian Collection |
| YNER | Yale Near Eastern Researches |
| YOS | Yale Oriental Series, Babylonian Texts |
| ZA | Zeitschrift für Assyriologie |
| ZAW | Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft |