(p. ix) List of Abbreviations

• AB

  Anchor Bible

• ABD

  Anchor Bible Dictionary (ed. D. N. Freedman. 6 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1992)

• Ag. Apion

  Josephus, Against Apion

• AJS Review

  Association for Jewish Studies Review

• ANEM

  Ancient Near Eastern Monographs

• ANF

  Ante-Nicene Fathers

• AnBib

  Analecta biblica

• Ant.

  Josephus, Jewish Antiquities

• AOAT

  Alter Orient und Altes Testament

• ATANT

  Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments

• ATD

  Das Alte Testament Deutsch

• ATM

  Altes Testament und Moderne

• ATSAT

  Arbeiten zu Text und Sprache im Alten Testament

• b.

  Babylonian Talmud

• BA

  Biblical Archaeologist

• BASOR

  Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research

• BBB

  Bonner biblische Beiträge

• BETL

  Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium

• BHS

  Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (ed. K. Elliger and W. Rudolph. Stuttgart, Germany: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1983)

• BKAT

  Biblischer Kommentar: Altes Testament

• BO

  Bibliotheca orientalis

• BWANT

  Beiträge zur Wissenschaft vom Alten (und Neuen) Testament

• BZ

  Biblische Zeitschrift

• BZAR

  Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte

• BZAW

  Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

• CAD

  The Assyrian Dictionary of the University of Chicago (ed. A. Leo Oppenheim et al.; Chicago: Oriental Institute, 1956–)

• CahRB

  Cahiers de la Revue biblique

• CBET

  Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology

• CBQ

  Catholic Biblical Quarterly

• CBQMS

  Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series

• (p. x) CC

  Continental Commentaries

• CC

  Covenant Code

• CD

  Covenant of Damascus

• CHANE

  Culture and History of the Ancient Near East

• CI

  Codex Iustinianius

• CIJ

  Corpus Inscriptionum Judaicarum

• COS

  Context of Scripture

• CPJ

  Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum

• CTh

  Codex Theodosianus (ed. T. Mommsen and P. M. Meyer)

• D

  Deuteronomic pentateuchal source

• DCLS

  Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies

• Decal.

  Philo, On the Decalogue

• Dig.

  Digest of Justinian

• DJD

  Discoveries in the Judaean Desert

• DSD

  Dead Sea Discoveries

• E

  Elohistic pentateuchal source

• EST

  Esarhaddon Succession Treaty

• FAT

  Forschungen zum Alten TestamentFRLANTForschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments

• H

  Holiness pentateuchal source

• HANEL

  A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law (R. Westbrook. Handbook of Oriental Studies 71. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2003)

• HAT

  Handbuch zum Alten Testament

• HeBAI

  Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel

• HL

  Hittite Laws

• HTR

  Harvard Theological Review

• HUCA

  Hebrew Union College Annual

• IDB

  Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible

• IEJ

  Israel Exploration Journal

• Inst.

  Gaius, Institutes

• J

  Yahwistic pentateuchal source

• JAJ

  Journal of Ancient Judaism

• JANER

  Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions

• JAOS

  Journal of the American Oriental Society

• JBL

  Journal of Biblical Literature

• JCS

  Journal of Cuneiform Studies

• JHS

  Journal of Hebrew Scriptures

• JJS

  Journal of Jewish Studies

• JLA

  Jewish Law Annual

• JNES

  Journal of Near Eastern Studies

• JQR

  Jewish Quarterly Review

• JSJ Sup.

  Journal for the Study of Judaism

• (p. xi) JSOT Sup

  Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series JSQJewish Studies Quarterly

• KAR

  Keilschrifttexte aus Assur religiösen Inhalts

• JSS

  Journal of Semitic Studies

• LE

  Laws of Eshnunna

• LH

  Laws of Hammurabi

• LHB/OTS

  Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies

• LI

  Laws of Lipit-Ishtar

• LOx

  Laws About Rented Oxen

• LNB

  Neo-Babylonian Laws

• LU

  Laws of Ur-Namma

• LXX

  Septuagint

• m.

  Mishnah

• MAL

  Middle Assyrian Laws

• MT

  Masoretic text

• NET

  New English Translation

• NIV

  New International Version

• NJB

  New Jerusalem Bible

• NJPS

  TANAKH, The Holy Scriptures: The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1988.

• NLT

  New Living Translation

• NPNF

  Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers

• NTS

  New Testament Studies

• OBC

  Orientalia Biblica et Christiana

• OBO

  Orbis biblicus et orientalis

• ÖBS

  Österreichische biblische Studien

• Or

  Orientalia, n.s.

• OTL

  Old Testament Library

• P

  Priestly pentateuchal source

• QD

  Quaestiones disputatae

• RB

  Revue biblique

• RBS

  Resources for Biblical Study

• RIDA

  Revue internationale des droits de l’antiquité

• RSV

  Revised Standard Version

• SAA

  State Archives of Assyria

• SBLRBS

  Society of Biblical Literature Resources for Biblical Study

• SBLWAW

  Society of Biblical Literature Writings from the Ancient World

• ScrHier

  Scripta Hierosolymitana

• SJSJ

  Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism

• SLEx

  Sumerian Laws Exercise Tablet

• Spec. Leg

  Philo, On the Special Laws

• STDJ

  Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah

• (p. xii) SVT

  Supplement to Vetus Testamentum

• t.

  Tosefta

• TAD

  Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt

• TDOT

  Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament

• THAT

  Theologischer Handkommentar zum Alten Testament

• TSAJ

  Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism

• TW

  Theologische Wissenschaft (Verlag W. Kohlhammer)

• TWAT

  Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Alten Testament

• Urk.

  Urkunden des ägyptischen Altertums

• Virt.

  Philo, On the Virtues

• VT

  Vetus Testamentum

• War

  Josephus, The Jewish War

• WMANT

  Wissenschaftliche Monographien zum Alten und Neuen Testament

• WUNT

  Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

• ZAR

  Zeitschrift für altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte

• ZAW

  Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

• ZSS

  Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung, Romanischen Abteilung