Abbreviations

AG = Arndt, W. F., and Gingrich, F. W., edd., A Greek English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (E. T., Cambridge-Chicago, 1957)

Ap = Appendix

BDB = Brown, Driver, Briggs, Hebrew Lexicon

CT = Christianity Today

ed. = editor

EB = The Expositor s Bible

HERE Hastings Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics

ICC = The International Critical Commentary

JBL = Journal of Biblical Literature

JThCh Journal for Theology and Church

K-B = Koehler-Baumgartner, Lexicon in Veteris Testamenti Libros

LXX = The Septaugint

nd. = no date

NT. = New Testament

O.T. = Old Testament

RSV = Revised Standard Version of the Bible

SDABC = The Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary

TDNT = Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, ed. G. Kittel, and G. Friedrich, F. T. by G. W. Bromiley (Grand Rapids, 1964-74)