Abbreviations

Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research Anchor Bible

David Noel Freedman (ed.), Anchor Bible Dictionary (6 vols; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1992)

Amsterdamse Cahiers voor Exegese en bijbelse Theologie Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palastina-Vereins M. Lichtheim (ed.), (1971-80) Ancient Egyptian Eiterature (3 vols; Berkeley)

Archiv fiir Orientforschung

Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums

Graham I. Davies, Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions: Corpus and Concordance (Cambridge University Press, 1991) American Journal of Archaeology Abhandlungen zur Literature Alt-Syren-Palastinas und Mesopota miens

Arbeiten zur Literatur und Geschichte des hellenistischen

Judentums

Analecta biblica

James B. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (3rd ed. with Supplement; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969)

Alter Orient und Altes Testament

Cowley, A., (1923) Aramaic Papyri of the Fifth Century

B. C. (reprinted Osnabruck: Otto Zeller, 1967).

Daniel David Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria and

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Babylonia (4 vols; 1926-27; reprinted London: Histories and Mysteries of Man, 1989)

ASOR  American Schools of Oriental Research

ATD  Das Alte Testament Deutsch

AUSS  Andrews University Seminary Studies

BA  Biblical Archeologist

BAR  Biblical Archaeology Review

BASOR  Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research

BBB  Bonner biblische Beitrage

BCE  Before the Common Era (= BC)

BETL  Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium

BHS  Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensis

Bib  Biblica

BibOr  Biblica et orientalia

BIS  Biblical Interpretation Series

BJRL  Bulletin of the John Rylands Library

BN  Biblische Notizen

BO  Bibliotheca Orientalis

BWANT  Beitrage zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und Neuen

Testament

BZ  Biblische Zeitschrift

BZAW  Beihefte zur ZAW

CAH  Cambridge Ancient History

CBC  Century Bible Commentary

CBET  Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology

CBQ  Catholic Biblical Quarterly

CBQMS  Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series

CBR  Currents in Biblical Research

CIS  Corpus Inscriptionum semiticarum

CML  J. C. L. Gibson, Canaanite Myths and Legends (1978)

ConBOT  Conjectanea biblica. Old Testament

CoS  Hallo, William W. (ed.), (1997-2002) The Context of

Scripture, (3 vols).

CRAIBL  Comptes rendus de I’Academie des inscriptions et belles-

Lettres

CRBS  Currents in Research: Biblical Studies

DDD  K. van der Toorn, B. Becking, and R W. van der Horst

(eds) Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (1999) DSD Dead Sea Discoveries

DtrH  Deuteronomistic History

EA  el-Amarna letters

Inschriften, Mit einem Beitrag von O. Rossler (vols 1-3; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1962-64)

KAT

KTU

LB

LC

LCL

LHBOTS

LXX

MB

MCC

MT

NEA

NEAEHL

NEB

OBO

OEANE

OLA

Or

OT

OTL

OTS

PAPS

PdA

PEQ

PJb

RB

RBL

RIMA

SAAS

SAHL

SANE

SBL

SBLABS

Kommentar zum Alten Testament

Dietrich, Manfried, Oswald Loretz and Joaquin Sanmartin (eds) (1995) The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU: Second, Enlarged Edition)

Late Bronze Age

Low Chronology (see §1.2.3.4)

Loeb Classical Library

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies Septuagint version of the Old Testament Middle Bronze Age

Modified Conventional Chronology (see §1.2.3.4)

Masoretic text

Near Eastern Archaeology

Ephraim Stern (ed.), New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land (4 vols; New York: Simon & Schuster; Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1992) Neue Echter Bibel Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis

Meyers, Eric M. (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Archaeology in the Near East (5 vols; Oxford)

Orientalia lovaniensia analecta Orientalia

Old Testament/Hebrew Bible Old Testament Library Oudtestamentische Studien

Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society

Probleme der Agyptologie

Palestine Exploration Quarterly

Paldstina-Jahrbuch

Revue Biblique

Review of Biblical Literature

The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Assyrian Periods

State Archives of Assyria Studies

Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant

Studies on the Ancient Near East

Society of Biblical Literature

Society of Biblical Literature Archaeology and Biblical Studies

SBL Abstracts and Seminar Papers

SBLASP

SBLBMI

SBLDS

SBLMS

SBLSBL

SBLSBS

SBLSCS

SBLSymS

SBLTT

SBT

SEL

SemeiaSt

SHANE

SHCANE

SJOT

SNTSMS

SWBA

TA

TAD

TDOT

TRu

TSAJ

TSSI

TWAT

TZ

UF

VT

VTSup

WBC

WMANT

SBL Bible and its Modern Interpreters

SBL Dissertation Series

SBL Monograph Series

SBL Studies in Biblical Literature

SBL Sources for Biblical Study

SBL Septuagint and Cognate Studies

Society of Biblical Literature Symposium Series

SBL Texts and Translations

Studies in Biblical Theology

Studi epigrafici e linguistici

Semeia Studies

Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East

Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series Social World of Biblical Antiquity Tel Aviv

Porten, Bezalel, and Ada Yardeni (1986-99) Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt: 1-4 (Hebrew University, Department of the History of the Jewish People, Texts and Studies for Students; Jerusalem: Hebrew University)

Botterweck, GJ. and Ringgren, H. (eds), (1974-) Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament (8 vols; Grand Rapids)

Theologische Rundshau

Texte und Studien zum Antiken Judentum

J. C. L. Gibson, Textbook of Syrian Semitic Inscriptions

(1973-81)

Botterweck, G. J. and Ringgren, H. (eds), (1970-) Theologisches Worterbuch zum Alten Testament (Stuttgart)

Theologische Zeitschrift Ugarit-Forschung Vetus Testamentum Supplements to Vetus Testamentum Word Bible Commentary

Wissenschaftliche Monographien zum Alten und Neuen Testament

ZA  Zeitschrift fur Assyrologie

ZAH  Zeitschrift fur Althebrdistik

ZAR  Zeitschrift fur altorientalische und biblische

Rechtsgeschichte

ZAW  Zeitschrift fiir die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

ZDPV  Zeitschrift des Deutschen Paldstina-Vereins

ZTK  Zeitschrift fiir Theologie und Kirche

§  Marks the sections of the text for cross-referencing

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