Abbreviations and Sigla

 

Abbreviation


Description


ß

Biblical Text - following the original classification by de Vaux and Milik1 [466]

¤

Non-Biblical Text - following the original classification by de Vaux and Milik1 [466]

1 [pp]

English translation available on page [pp] in F. García Martínez, The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated - The Qumran Texts in English, 2nd ed., trans. W. G. E. Watson, (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995).

2 [pp]

English translation available on page [pp] in R. Eisenman and M. Wise, Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered, (New York: Penguin, 1993).

3 [pp]

English translation available on page [pp] in Geza Vermes, The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, Revised and Extended Fourth Edition (London: Penguin, 1995).

AAR

American Academy of Religion

ar

written in Aramaic

AASOR

Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research

ABD

Anchor Bible Dictionary [vol #] (New York: Doubleday, 1992)

AIA

Archaeological Institute of America

AJA

American Journal of Archaeology

ALUOS

 

ANET

Ancient Near East Texts

Antiq.

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities

ASAE

Annales du Services des Antiquités de l'Égypte

ASOR

American Schools of Oriental Research,
publisher of the quarterly journal Biblical Archaeologist.

ATR

Anglican Theological Review

BA

Biblical Archaeologist -- recently renamed NEA

BAR

Biblical Archaeology Review

BAS

Biblical Archaeological Society,
publisher of BAR and BR.

BASOR

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research

BBR

Bulletin for Biblical Research

BIFAO

Bulletin de l'Institute Francais d'Archéologie Orientale

BR

Bible Review

BSFE

Bulletin de la Société Francais d'Égyptologie

BSOAS

Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies

CBQ

Catholic Biblical Quarterly

CD

The Damascus Document from the Cairo Genizah.

Deut or Dt

Book of Deuteronomy

DJD

Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (of Jordan) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955- ).

DSD

Dead Sea Discoveries (1994-).

DSSM

The Dead Sea Scrolls on Microfiche. A Comprehensive Facsimile Edition of the Texts from the Judaean Desert, E. Tov (ed.), with S. Pfann (Leiden: E. J. Brill-IDC, 1993).

DSSIP

S. A. Reed, Dead Sea Scrolls Inventory Project: Lists of Documents, Photographs and Museum Plates (Claremont, Calif.: Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center, 1991- ).

École Biblique

École Biblique et Archéologique Française, located in East Jerusalem

EnclDSS

Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (New York: Oxford, fourthcoming).

EI

Eratz-Israel

ER

A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls, with an introduction and index by R. H. Eisenman and J. M. Robinson, 2 vols (Washington, D.C: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1991). [Intro. in English, facsimilies primarily in Hebrew and Aramaic]

ET

Evangelische Theologie

Exod or Ex

Book of Exodus

FO

Folio Orientalia

Gen or Gn

Book of Genesis

gr

written in Greek

HHS

 

HSM

Harvard Semitic Monographs

HTR

Harvard Theological Review

HUCA

Hebrew Union College Annual

IAA

Israel Antiquities Authority

IEJ

Israel Exploration Journal

IMJ

Israel Museum Journal

IOS

Israel Oriental Studies

IOSOT

International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament?

JAOS

Journal of the American Oriental Society

JBL

Journal of Biblical Literature

JBR

Journal of Bible and Religion

JDS

Judaean Desert Studies

JJS

Journal of Jewish Studies

JNES

Journal of Near Eastern Studies

JQR

Jewish Quarterly Review

JRS

Journal of Roman Studies

JSJ

Journal for the Study of Judaism

JSP

Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha

JSQ

Jewish Studies Quarterly

JSS

Journal of Semitic Studies

JTS

 

Lev or Lv

Book of Leviticus

LXX

Septuagint

LMB

Le Monde de la Bible

MIDSS

Methods of Investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Khirbet Qumran Site, M. O. Wise, N. Golb, J. J. Collins, D. G. Pardee (eds), (New York: The New York Academy of Sciences, 1994). [Volume 722 of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences]

Milik, Books

J. T. Milik, The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments of Qumrân Cave 4 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976).

Milik, MS

J. T. Milik, 'Milki-sedeq et Milki-resha dans les anciens écrits juifs et chrétiens,'Journal of Jewish Studies 23 (1972) 95-144.

Milik, Years

J. T. Milik, Ten Years of Discovery in the Wilderness of Judaea (London: SCM, 1959).

MQC or
STJD 11

The Madrid Qumran Congress: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Madrid 18-21 March, 1991, Julio Trebolle Barrera and Luis Vegas Montaner (eds.), 2 vols. (Leiden and Madrid: Brill and Editorial Complutense, 1992).

MT

Massoretic Text

NEA

Near Eastern Archaeology, formerly Biblical Archaeologist

NTS

New Testament Studies

Num or Nm

Book of Numbers

OG

Old Greek

PAAJR

Proceedings of the American Academy of Jewish Research

palaeoHeb or
paleoHeb

written in palaeo-Hebrew

PAM

Palestine Archaeological Museum

PAPS

Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society

PE

A Preliminary Edition of the Unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls: The Hebrew and Aramaic Texts from Cave Four, B. Wacholder and M. Abegg, reconstruction and editing, 2 fascs. (Washington, D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1991 and 1993).

PEQ

Palestine Exploration Quarterly

PIBA

?? Palestine Institute of Biblical Archaeology ??

Ps or Pss

Psalm or Book of Psalms

QC

Qumran Chronicle, published in Poland.

RB

Revue Biblique

RHPR

Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses

RHR

Revue de l'histoire des religions

RQ or RevQ

Revue de Qumran (1958-).
Contains a very complete, running bibliography.

SBL

Society of Biblical Literature

SDB

 

SI

Studia Iranica

SNTS

Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas,
which publishes the quarterly international journal, New Testament Studies.

ST

Studia Theologica

STDJ 9

F. García Martínez, Qumran and Apocalyptic. Studies on the Aramaic Texts of Qumran (Leiden: 1992).

STJD 11 or
MQC

The Madrid Qumran Congress: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Madrid 18-21 March, 1991, Julio Trebolle Barrera and Luis Vegas Montaner (eds.), 2 vols. (Leiden and Madrid: Brill and Editorial Complutense, 1992).

STJD 15

New Qumran Texts and Studies. Proceedings of the First Meeting of the International Organization, Paris 1992, G. J. Brooke (ed.) (Leiden: 1994).

SVT 4

Volume du Congrés Strasbourg 1956 (Leiden: Brill, 1957).

TLZ

Theologische Literaturzeitung

ThR

Theologische Rundschau

TSK

Theologische Studien und Kritiken

TWzNT

Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament, G. Kittel (ed.) (Stuttgart).

ThZ

Theologische Zeitschrift

VT

Vetus Testamentum

VTSup

Vetus Testamentum, Supplements

War

Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War

ZAW

Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

ZDPV

Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins

ZNW

Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft

ZPE

Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik

ZTK

Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche

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