Abbreviations

The following is a list of common abbreviations used in the blog posts.

A – Codex Alexandrius (A), Greek uncial manuscript of the Bible, fifth century A.D.

B – Codex Vaticanus (B), Greek uncial manuscript of the Bible, 325-350 A.D.

BDAG – Bauer, Walter. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. Revised and edited by Frederick W. Danker. 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

BDB – Brown, F., S. Driver and C. Briggs, eds. The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon: With an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic. 1906. Reprint, Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2008.

BECNT – Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament

BHS – Biblia Hebraica (Stuttgratensia)

BKCNT – Walvoord, John F. and Roy B. Zuck, ed. The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures by Dallas Seminary Faculty. Vol. 2, New Testament. Colorado Springs: David C Cook, 1985. 

BKCOT – Walvoord, John F. and Roy B. Zuck, ed. The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures by Dallas Seminary Faculty. Vol. 1, Old Testament. Colorado Springs: David C Cook, 1985.

ca. – circa, about

cf. – confer, compare

DBLH – Swanson, James. Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains: Hebrew (Old Testament). Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997. Numbers in footnotes refer to entry number.

ed. – edited, edition, editor

e.g. – exampli gratia, for example

ESV – English Standard Version

et al. – et alii, and others

HCSB – Holman Christian Standard Bible

ibid. – ibidem, in the same place

i.e. – id est, that is

KCC – Kidner Classic Commentary

KEL – Kregel Exegetical Library

KJV – King James Version

LXX – Septuagint

MBC – Michael Rydelnik and Michael Vanlaningham, ed. The Moody Bible Commentary: A One-Volume Commentary on the Whole Bible by the Faculty of Moody Bible Institute. Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2014.

ms(s) – manuscript(s)

MT – Masoretic Text, the received Hebrew text printed in BHS

n – note

NASB – New American Standard Bible

n.d. – no date

NIV – New International Version

NKJV – New King James Version

n.p. – no publisher, no place of publication

NT – New Testament

OT – Old Testament

qtd. – quoted in

trans. – translation, translator, translated

TWOT – Harris, R. Laird, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke, eds. Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament. 2 vols. Chicago: Moody Press, 1980. Numbers in footnotes refer to entry number, not vol. and page numbers.

vol(s). – volume(s)

v(v). – verse(s)

WBC – Word Biblical Commentary