Abbreviations for biblical books and nonbiblical literature jump to the definitions for sn,tn,tc click here list of abbreviations for the net bible footnotes about us. The homepage for new testament scholar danny zacharias, including his blog, published books, greek mobile apps flashgreek and parsegreek, and online courses like mastering logos bible software. In protestant english bibles, the ot books are arranged mostly by genre. See the list below for their most common abbreviations.
However, t he final authority for the bibliographic form used in your paper is your professor. The names of the books of the bible can be abbreviated. Kjv king james version nasb new american standard version hb hebrew bible lxx septuagint vulg. See whats new in logos 8 explore all features schedule a demo howtos. Abbreviations for the books of the bible and for ancient jewish and christian literature. Bible, religion, or philosophy sometimes use the sbl society of biblical literature style of citations. Abbreviations for journals are listed together with series and reference works alphabetically by full title in 8. The list below represents the most widely used modern english versions and their common abbreviations.
Abbreviations may be used when the citation is a reference that follows a block quotation of text. Most bibles give preferred abbreviation guides in their tables of contents, or at the front of the book. These are the abbreviations established in the sbl handbook of style. According to the sbl handbook of style, the abbreviations for books of the bible, deuterocanonical books, and the dead sea scrolls are not. These are the abbreviations established in the sbl handbook of style peabody, ma. Similar to chicagoturabian, you can use the examples on the right to model your citations.
The society of biblical literature has a series of standard abbreviations for bible books. In addition to the abbreviations for biblical books given below in 8. List of sbl abbreviations for biblical books the heidelblog. Abbreviations for ancient jewish and christian literature. Thesblhandbookofstyle forancientneareastern,biblical, andearlychristianstudies editedbypatrickh. In the hebrew bible or tanakh the books are arranged in three groups. If you would like to download an excel and word copy of this table, as well as all of the primary literature abbreviations from the sbl handbook 2nd ed. Some websites and religiouspublishers use very short abbreviations, consisting of only 1 or 2 letters,which sometimes causes confusion.
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