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Ancient (Primary) Sources Abbreviations

The terms here do not refer to any published editions of these ancient sources. Rather they refer in general to the work or corpus of works that has commonly been labeled with a particular term and abbreviation. Abbreviations for these are found scattered throughout §8.1 - §8.3 (pages 118-171), along with many other ancient sources such as Philo, Josephus, and various early Christian and Jewish writers.

Title

Abbrev.

The Apostolic Fathers (a group of various Christian writings from the late 1st and early 2nd centuries)

AF

The Dead Sea Scrolls (Old Testament and other texts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek from Qumran and surrounding sites)

DSS

The Greek New Testament

GNT

The Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament)

HB

The Nag Hammadi codices (a group of various gnostic/sub-christian texts)

NHC

The Septuagint (the ancient Greek Old Testament)

LXX

The Vulgate (the Latin translation of the bible by St. Jerome)

Vulg.

Abbreviations for ancient primary sources are listed in various places in SBLHS. Alphabetically by full title in §8.4.1 (pages 171-216) and by abbreviation in §8.4.2 (pages 216-260)

Title

Abbrev.

Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. Edited by James A. Pritchard. 3rd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969.

ANET

Ante-Nicene Fathers

ANF

The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament. Edited by Robert H. Charles. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1913.

APOT

Biblia Hebraica Quinta.Edited by Adrian Schenker et al. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2004.

BHQ

Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Edited by Karl Elliger and Wilhelm Rudolph. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgeselschaft, 1983.

BHS

The Context of Scripture. Edited by William W. Hallo. 3 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1997-2002.

COS

The Greek New Testament. Edited by Bruce M. Metzger, et al. 5th rev. ed. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgeselschaft, 2014.

UBS5

The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition. Edited by Michael W. Holmes. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2010.

SBLGNT

Novum Testamentum Graece. Edited by Nestle and Aland, et al. 28th ed. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgeselschaft, 2012.

NA28

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1

NPNF1

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2

NPNF2

Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Edited by James H. Charlesworth. 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1983, 1985.

OTP