ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS COMMENTARY

AB Anchor Bible Commentaries, ed. William Foxwell Albright and David Noel Freedman
ABD Anchor Bible Dictionary (6 vols.), ed. David Noel Freedman
ABPS American Baptist Publication Society
AKOT Analytical Key to the Old Testament by John Joseph Owens
ANE Ancient Near East
ANET Ancient Near Eastern Texts, James B. Pritchard
ASV American Standard Version
AV Authorized Version
BAGD A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Early Christian Literature, Walter Bauer, 2nd ed. by F. W. Gingrich and Fredrick Danker
BDB A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament by F. Brown, S. R. Driver and C. A. Briggs
BHS Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, GBS, 1997
DSS Dead Sea Scrolls
EJ Encyclopedia Judaica
IDB The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (4 vols.), ed. George A. Buttrick
ISBE International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (5 vols.), ed. James Orr
JB Jerusalem Bible
JPSOA The Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text: A New Translation (The Jewish Publication Society of America)
KB The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament by Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartner
KJV King James Version
LAM The Holy Bible From Ancient Eastern Manuscripts (the Peshitta) by George M. Lamsa
LUCIAN A Second Century Recension of the LXX from Antioch, Syria
LXX Septuagint (Greek-English) by Zondervan, 1970
MOF A New Translation of the Bible by James Moffatt
MT Masoretic Hebrew Text
NAB New American Bible Text
NASB New American Standard Bible
NCV New Century Version by Thomas Nelson, published by HarperCollins Christian Publishing, 2005
NEB New English Bible
NET
NET Bible: New English Translation, Second Beta Edition
NIDNTT New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology (4 vol.s), by Colin Brown
NIDOTTE New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis (5 vols.), ed. Willem VanGemeren
NIV New International Version
NJB New Jerusalem Bible
NKJV New King James Version
NRSV New Revised Standard Bible
OTPG Old Testament Passing Guide by Todd S. Beall, William A. Banks and Colin Smith
REB Revised English Bible
RSV Revised Standard Version
SEPT A New English Translation of the Septuagint by Oxford University Press, 2007
TCNT The Twentieth Century New Testament
TEV Today's English Version from United Bible Societies
UBS4 United Bible Societies' The Greek New Testament, fourth revised edition
YLT Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible by Robert Young
Williams C. B. Williams, The NT in the Language of the People
ZPEB Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible (5 vols.), ed. Merrill C. Tenney