SPECIAL TOPIC: Abbreviations Used in this Study

APPENDIX TWO: Abbreviations Used in this Study

AB -- Anchor Bible Commentaries, ed. William Foxwell Albright and David Noel Freedman

ABD -- Anchor Bible Dictionary (6 vols.), ed. David Noel Freedman

AKOT -- Analytical Key to the Old Testament by John Joseph Owens

ANET -- Ancient Near Eastern Texts, James B. Pritchard

BAGD -- A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Early Christian Literature, Walter Bauer, 2nd edition by F. W. Gingrich and Fredrick Danker

BDB -- A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament by F. Brown, S. R. Driver and C. A. Briggs

BHS -- Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, GBS, 1997

DSS -- Dead Sea Scrolls

IDB -- The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (4 vols.), ed. George A. Buttrick

ISBE -- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (5 vols.), ed. James Orr

JB -- Jerusalem Bible

JPSOA -- The Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text: A New Translation (The Jewish Publication Society of America)

KB -- The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament by Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartner

LAM -- The Holy Bible From Ancient Eastern Manuscripts (the Peshitta) by George M. Lamsa

LXX -- Septuagint (Greek-English) by Zondervan, 1970

MOF -- A New Translation of the Bible by James Moffatt

MT -- Masoretic Hebrew Text

NAB -- New American Bible Text

NASB -- New American Standard Bible

NEB -- New English Bible

NET -- NET Bible: New English Translation, Second Beta Edition

NIDNTT -- New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology (4 vols.), by Colin Brown

NIDOTTE -- New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis (5 vols.), ed. Willem A. VanGemeren

NIV -- New International Version

NJB -- New Jerusalem Bible

NRSV -- New Revised Standard Bible

OTPG -- Old Testament Parsing Guide by Todd S. Beall, William A. Banks and Colin Smith

REB -- Revised English Bible

RSV -- Revised Standard Version

TCNT -- The Twentieth Century New Testament

TEV -- Today's English Version from United Bible Societies

YLT -- Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible by Robert Young

ZPBE -- Zondervan Pictorial Bible Encyclopedia (5 vols.), ed. Merrill C. Tenney