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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