AM — W. F. Albright and C. S. Mann. Matthew. The Anchor Bible. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971.

ANEP — James B.Pritchard (ed.). Ancient Near Eastern Pictures. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954.

ANET — James B. Pritchard (ed.). Ancient Near Eastern Texts. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955.

ANRW — H.Temporini & W. Hasse (gen. eds.). Aufstieg und Niedergang der ro"mischen Welt. Berlin; Walter de Gruyter, 1972-.

ANT — Jack Finegan. The Archeology of the New Testament. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969.

ANTC — Edwin Yamauchi. The Archaeology of New Testament Cities in Western Asia Minor. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1980.

APC — Leon Morris. The Apostolic Preaching of the Cross. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1956.

APM — Thorsten Moritz. A Profound Mystery: The Use of the Old Testament in Ephesians. Supplements to Novum Testamentum 85. Leiden: E.J.Brill, 1996.

Arndt — W.F.Arndt. Bible Commentary: The Gospel According to St. Luke. St. Louis: Concordia, 1956.

AS — G.Abbott-Smith. A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament. Edinburgh: T. & T.Clark, 1936.

AT — Klaus Beyer. Die arama"ischen Texte vom Toten Meer. Go"ttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984.

Attridge — Harold W. Attridge. Hebrews. Hermeneia. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1989.

Aune — David Aune. Revelation: Word Biblical Commentary. 3 vols. Dallas: Word, 1997.

AusBR — Australian Biblical Review

AUSS — Andrews University Seminary Studies

AUV — Otto Betz, Martin Hengel, and Peter Schmidt (eds.). Abraham Unser Vater: Juden und Christen im Gespra"ch u"ber die Bibel. Festschrift fu"r Otto Michel zum 60. Geburtstag. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1963.

AVB — Etan Levine. The Aramaic Version of the Bible: Contents and Context. Beiheft zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft. Otto Kaiser (ed.). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1988.

b. — Babylonian Talmud

BA — Biblical Archaeologist

BAFCS — Bruce W.Winter (ed.). The Book of Acts in its First Century Setting. 6 vols. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993-.

BAGD — Walter Bauer. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament. William F.Arndt and F.Wilbur Gingrich (trans). Revised and augmented by F. Wilbur Gingrich and Frederick W. Danker from Walter Bauer's Fifth edition, 1958. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.