| AARSBLVR | American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature, Ventures in Religion |
| AAS | Acta apostolicae sedis |
| AASOR | Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research |
| AB | Anchor Bible |
| ABD | David Noel Freedman (ed.), Anchor Bible Dictionary (6 vols.; New York: Doubleday, 1992) |
| ABRL | Anchor Bible Reference Library |
| AbrN | Abr-Nahrain |
| ABS | Archaeology and Biblical Studies |
| AcBib | Academia Biblica |
| ACNT | Augsburg Commentaries on the New Testament |
| AcOr | Acta orientalia |
| ACW | Ancient Christian Writers |
| ADAJ | Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan |
| ADOG | Abhandlungen der Deutschen Orientgesellschaft |
| ADPV | Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins |
| Aeg | Aegyptus |
| AER | American Ecclesiastical Review |
| AfO | Archiv für Orientforschung |
| AGAJU | Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums |
| AHw | W. von Soden, Akkadisches Handwörterbuch (3 vols.; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1965–81) |
| AIL | Ancient Israel and Its Literature |
| AION | Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli |
| AJA | American Journal of Archaeology |
| AJAS | American Journal of Arabic Studies |
| AJBA | Australian Journal of Biblical Archaeology |
| AJC | Ancient Judaism and Christianity |
| AJEC | Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity = AGAJU |
| AJP | American Journal of Philology |
| AJSL | American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures |
| AJT | American Journal of Theology |
| ALASPM | Abhandlungen zur Literatur Alt-Syrien-Palästinas und Mesopotamiens |
| ALBO | Analecta Lovaniensia biblica et orientalia |
| ALGHJ | Arbeiten zur Literatur und Geschichte des hellenistischen Judentums |
| ALUOS | Annual of Leeds University Oriental Society |
| AnBib | Analecta biblica |
| AnBoll | Analecta Bollandiana |
| ANEM | Ancient Near East Monographs |
| ANEP | J. B. Pritchard (ed.), Ancient Near East in Pictures (2nd ed.; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994) |
| ANESTP | J. B. Pritchard (ed.), Ancient Near East, Supplementary Texts and Pictures (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969) |
| ANET | J. B. Pritchard (ed.), Ancient Near Eastern Texts (3rd ed.; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969) |
| ANF | The Ante-Nicene Fathers |
| Ang | Angelicum |
| AnGreg | Analecta Gregoriana |
| AnOr | Analecta orientalia |
| ANRW | Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt |
| ANTC | Abingdon New Testament Commentary |
| ANTF | Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung |
| ANTJ | Arbeiten zum Neuen Testament und Judentum |
| Anton | Antonianum |
| AO | Aula orientalis |
| AOAT | Alter Orient und Altes Testament |
| AOS | American Oriental Series |
| AOSTS | American Oriental Society Translation Series |
| AOTC | Abingdon Old Testament Commentary |
| AP | J. Marouzeau (ed.), L'Année philologique |
| APOT | R. H. Charles (ed.), Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (2 vols.; Oxford: Clarendon, 1913) |
| ARAB | D. D. Luckenbill (ed.), Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia (2 vols.; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1926–27; repr., New York: Greenwood, 1968) |
| ArBib | Aramaic Bible |
| Arch | Archaeology |
| ARg | Archiv für Reformations-geschichte |
| ARM | Archives Royales de Mari |
| ArOr | Archiv orientální |
| ARw | Archiv für Religionswissenschaft |
| AS | Assyriological Studies |
| ASAE | Annales du service des antiquités de l'Égypte |
| ASNU | Acta Seminarii neotestamentici Upsaliensis |
| ASOR | American Schools of Oriental Research |
| ASP | American Studies in Papyrology |
| ASS | Acta sanctae sedis |
| ASSR | Archives des sciences sociales des religions |
| ASTI | Annual of the Swedish Theological Institute |
| ATAbh | Alttestamentliche Abhandlungen |
| ATANT | Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments |
| ATD | Das Alte Testament Deutsch |
| ATDan | Acta theologica danica |
| ATG | Archivo teológico granadino |
| ATR | Anglican Theological Review |
| ATSAT | Arbeiten zu Text und Sprache im Alten Testament |
| Aug | Augustinianum |
| AusBR | Australian Biblical Review |
| AUSS | Andrews University Seminary Studies |
| AYB | Anchor Yale Bible |
| AYBRL | Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library |
| BA | Biblical Archaeologist |
| BAC | Biblioteca de autores cristianos |
| BAR | Biblical Archaeologist Reader |
| BARev | Biblical Archaeology Review |
| BASOR | Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research |
| BASORSup | BASOR, Supplemental Studies |
| BASP | Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists |
| BASPSup | BASP, Supplements |
| BBB | Bonner biblische Beiträge |
| BBET | Beiträge zur biblischen Exegese und Theologie |
| BBR | Bulletin for Biblical Research |
| BBRSup | Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplements |
| BCNH | Bibliothèque copte de Nag Hammadi |
| BCSR | Bulletin of the Council on the Study of Religion |
| BDAG | F. W. Danker, Greek-English Lexicon of the NT (3rd ed.; based on W. Bauer's lexicon and earlier English editions by W. F. Arndt, F. W. Gingrich, and F. W. Danker; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000) |
| BDB | F. Brown, S. R. Driver, and C. A. Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (Oxford: Clarendon, 1907) |
| BDF | F. Blass, A. Debrunner, and R. W. Funk, A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago... |
Abbreviations of Modern Publications
