| AB | Anchor Bible |
| ABD | Anchor Bible Dictionary. Edited by David Noel Freedman. 6 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1992 |
| ABRL | Anchor Bible Reference Library |
| ABSA | Annual of the British School at Athens |
| ACSt | American Classical Studies |
| ACTR | Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Religion |
| ACW | Ancient Christian Writers |
| AEOC | American Excavations in Old Corinth |
| AGJU | Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums |
| AHR | American Historical review |
| AJA | American Journal of Archaeology |
| AJP | American Journal of Philology |
| AJSL | American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures |
| ALUB | Annales littéraires de l’Université de Besançon |
| ALW | Archiv für Liturgiewissenschaft |
| AM | Arethusa Monographs |
| AmEthnologist | American Ethnologist |
| AmJT | American Journal of Theology |
| ANF | The Ante-Nicene Fathers. Edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. 10 vols. New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1885–1887 catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010248796 |
| ANL | Annua nuntia Lovaniensia |
| AnOr | Analecta Orientalia |
| ANRW | Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung. Edited by H. Temporini and W. Haase. Berlin, 1972– |
| ANTC | Abingdon New Testament Commentaries |
| AnthLat | Anthologia Latina |
| AnthroMed | Anthropology and Medicine |
| AP | Ancient Philosophies |
| APB | Acta patristica et byzantina |
| AR | Archiv für Religionswissenschaft |
| ASLL | Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature |
| ASR | American Sociological Review |
| AYB | Anchor Yale Bible |
| BAR.I | British Archaeological Reports: International Series |
| BASP | Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists |
| BCAW | Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World |
| BCHSup | Bulletin de correspondance hellénique: Supplément |
| BETL | Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium |
| BFPUL | Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l’Université de Liège |
| BHT | Beiträge zur historischen Theologie |
| Bib | Biblica |
| BibInt | Biblical Interpretation |
| BibInt | Biblical Interpretation Series |
| BibOr | Biblica et Orientalia |
| BICSSup | Supplement to the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies |
| BNP | Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Edited by Hubert Cancik. 22 vols. Leiden: Brill, 2002–2011 |
| BNTC | Black’s New Testament Commentaries |
| BollS | Bollingen Series |
| BSGRT | Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana |
| BTB | Biblical Theology Bulletin |
| BTS | Biblical Tools and Studies |
| BZAW | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft |
| BZNW | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft |
| CBET | Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology |
| CBQ | Catholic Biblical Quarterly |
| CCS | Cambridge Classical Studies |
| CCSL | Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina |
| CEG | Carmina epigraphica Graeca. Edited by P. A. Hansen. Berlin, 1983–1989 |
| CGAE | Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire |
| ClAnt | Classical Antiquity |
| CH | Church History |
| CIJ | Corpus Inscriptionum Judaicarum. Edited by Jean-Baptiste Frey. 2 vols. Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1936–1952. Inscriptions for volume 2 online at Searchable Greek Inscriptions. The Packard Humanities Institute. Cornell University and Ohio State University epigraphy.packhum.org |
| CIL | Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 17 vols. Berlin: Reimer; Berlin: de Gruyter, 1862– cil.bbaw.de/cil_en/dateien/cil_baende.html |
| CIMRM | Vermaseren, M. J. 1956–1960. Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae. 2 vols. The Hague: Nijhoff. Many CIMRM entries have corresponding online content at Roger Pearse, ed. “Catalogue of Monuments and Images of Mithras.” The Roman Cult of Mithras www.roger-pearse.com/mithras |
| Classics@ | Classics@: Online Journal of the Center for Hellenic Studies chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/1167 |
| CLE | Carmina Latina Epigraphica. Edited by A. Riese, F. Bücheler, and E. Lommatzsch. 3 vols. AnthLat 2.1–3. BSGRT. Leipzig: Teubner, 1895–1926 |
| ConBNT | Coniectanea Neotestamentica |
| CritQ | Critical Quarterly |
| CSCO | Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium |
| CW | Classical World |
| DeathStud | Death Studies |
| DNP | Der neue Pauly: Enzyklopädie der Antike. Edited by Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1996– |
| ECF | Early Church Fathers |
| ECL | Early Christianity and its Literature |
| EG | Epigrammata Graeca. Edited by G. Kaibel. Berlin: Reimer, 1878. Some inscriptions online at Searchable Greek Inscriptions. The Packard Humanities Institute. Cornell University and Ohio State University epigraphy.packhum.org |
| EgT | Eglise et théologie |
| EKKNT | Evangelisch-katholischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament |
| Ekstasis | Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle Ages |
| EJL | Early Judaism and Its Literature |
| EMC | Echos du monde classique/Classical Views |
| EnAC | Entretiens sur l’antiquité classique |
| EPRO | Etudes préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l’Empire romain |
| ESEC | Emory Studies in Early Christianity |
| EvT | Evangelische Theologie |
| FAT | Forschungen zum Alten Testament |
| FC | Fathers of the Church |
| FCNTECW | Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings |
| FFF | Foundations and Facets Forum |
| FGH | Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker. Edited by Felix Jacoby. Leiden: Brill, 1954–1964 |
| FOTL | Forms of the Old Testament Literature |
| FRLANT | Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments |
| GCS | Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten [drei] Jahrhunderte |
| GR | Greece and Rome |
| HBM | Hebrew Bible Monographs |
| HDR | Harvard Dissertations in Religion |
| Hen | Henoch |
| HermC | Hermeneutic Commentaries |
| Hesperia | Hesperia: Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens |
| HespS | Hesperia Supplements |
| Historia | Historia: Zeitschrift für alte Geschichte |
| HistPsychiatry | History of Psychiatry |
| HR | History of Religions |
| HTR | Harvard Theological Review |
| HTS | Harvard Theological Studies |
| IBC | Interpretation: A Bible Commentary |
| IBM | The Collection of Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the British Museum. Edited by C. T. Newton, E. L. Hicks, and G. Hirschfeld. 5 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1874–1916. Some inscriptions online at Searchable Greek Inscriptions. The Packard Humanities Institute. Cornell University and Ohio State University epigraphy.packhum.org |
| ICC | International Critical Commentary |
| IF | Istanbuler Forschungen |
| IG | Inscriptiones Graecae. Edited by Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin, 1877–. Inscriptions online at Searchable Greek Inscriptions. The Packard Humanities Institute. Cornell University and Ohio State University epigraphy.packhum.org |
| IK | Inschriften griechischer Städte aus Kleinasien |
| ILCV | Inscriptiones Latinae Christianae Veteres. Edited by Ernst Diehl. 2nd ed. Berlin: Druckerei Hildebrand, 1961 |
| IMetropolis | Metropolis Inscriptions: Texts and List. Edited by Donald F. McCabe. The Princeton Project on the Inscriptions of Anatolia. Princeton: Institute for Advanced Study, 1989. Packard Humanities Institute CD #6, 1991. Includes: R. Meriç, R. Merkelbach, J. Nollé, and S. Şahin, eds. Die Inschriften von Ephesos, VII,1, nos. 3401–3493. IK 17.1. Bonn, 1981. Inscriptions online at Searchable Greek Inscriptions. The Packard Humanities Institute. Cornell University and Ohio State University epigraphy.packhum.org |
| ImpEmp | Impact of Empire |
| IMT LAp./Mil. | Inschriften Mysia und Troas. Edited by M. Barth and J. Stauber. Munich: Leopold Wenger Institut, Universität München, 1989. Packard Humanities Institute CD #7 (Mysia, “Lacus Apolloniatis & Miletupolis,” nos. 2150–2417), 1996. Includes: Miletupolis: Inschriften und Denkmäler. Edited by E. Schwertheim. IK 26. Bonn, 1983. Inscriptions online at Searchable Greek Inscriptions. The Packard Humanities Institute. Cornell University and Ohio State University epigraphy.packhum.org |
| Inscr.Métr. | Inscriptions métriques de l’Égypte gréco-romaine: Recherches sur la poésie épigrammatique des Grecs en Égypte. Edited by Étienne Bernand. ALUB 98. Paris 1969. Inscriptions online at Searchable Greek Inscriptions. The Packard Humanities Institute. Cornell University and Ohio State University epigraphy.packhum.org |
| IPrusaOlymp | Die Inschriften von Prusa ad Olympum. Edited by Thomas Corsten. 2 vols. IK 39–40. Bonn 1991–1993. Inscriptions online at Searchable Greek Inscriptions. The Packard Humanities Institute. Cornell University and Ohio State University epigraphy.packhum.org |
| ISinope | The Inscriptions of Sinope. Edited by D. H. French. IK 64. Bonn: Habelt, 2004. Inscriptions online at Searchable Greek Inscriptions. The Packard Humanities Institute. Cornell University and Ohio State University epigraphy.packhum.org |
| ISLL | Illinois Studies in Language and Literature |
| ISmyrna | Smyrna Inscriptions: Texts and List. Edited by Donald F. McCabe. The Princeton Project on the Inscriptions of Anatolia. Princeton: Institute for Advanced Study, 1988. Packard Humanities Institute CD #6, 1991. Includes: G. Petzl, ed. Die Inschriften von Smyrna. 2 vols. IK 23 and 24.1–2. Bonn, 1982–1990. Inscriptions online at Searchable Greek Inscriptions. The Packard Humanities Institute. Cornell University and Ohio State University epigraphy.packhum.org |
| JAAR | Journal of the American Academy of Religion |
| JAF | Journal of American Folklore |
| JBL | Journal of Biblical Literature |
| JBTh | Jahrbuch für biblische Theologie |
| JECH | Journal of Early Christian History |
| JFSR | Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion |
| JHistSoc | The Journal of the Historical Society |
| JHS | Journal of Hellenic Studies |
| JIWE | Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe. Edited by David Noy. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993–1995. Inscriptions online at Searchable Greek Inscriptions. The Packard Humanities Institute. Cornell University and Ohio State University epigraphy.packhum.org |
| JLossTrauma | Journal of Loss and Trauma |
| JMS | Journal of Mithraic Studies |
| JPSTC | JPS Torah Commentary |
| JSJ | Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Periods |
| JSJSup | Journal for the Study of Judaism Supplement Series |
| JSNT | Journal for the Study of the New Testament |
| JSNTSup | Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series |
| JSOT | Journal for the Study of the Old Testament |
| JSOTSup | Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series |
| JSPSup | Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series |
| JTS | Journal of Theological Studies |
| KAV | Kommentar zu den Apostolischen Vätern |
| KD | Kerygma und Dogma |
| KTU | Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit. Edited by Manfried Dietrich, Oswald Loretz, and Jaoquin Sanmartín. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2013. 3rd enl. ed. of KTU: The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani, and Other Places. Edited by Manfried Dietrich, Oswald Loretz, and Jaoquin Sanmartín. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 1995 (= CTU) |
| LCL | Loeb Classical Library |
| LICS | Leeds International Classical Studies |
| LNTS | The Library of New Testament Studies |
| LSJ | Liddell, Henry George, Robert Scott, and Henry Stuart Jones. A Greek-English Lexicon. 9th ed. with revised supplement. Oxford: Clarendon, 1996 |
| Marek, Kat.Am. | Stadt, Ära und Territorium in Pontus-Bithynia und Nord-Galatia. Edited by Christian Marek. IF 39. Tübingen: Wasmuth, 1993, 157–87 and Anhang 5, “Katalog der Inschriften von Amastris.” Inscriptions online at Searchable Greek Inscriptions. The Packard Humanities Institute. Cornell University and Ohio State University epigraphy.packhum.org |
| MDAI | Mitteilungen des Deutschen archäologischen Instituts |
| MDAI(A) | Mitteilungen des Deutschen archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung |
| MFC | Message of the Fathers of the Church |
| MH | Museum Helveticum |
| MMed | Medieval Mediterranean |
| MnS | Mnemosyne Supplements |
| MVAW | Münchener Vorlesungen zu Antiken Welten |
| NAPSPMS | North American Patristic Society Patristic Monograph Series |
| NHMS | Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies |
| NHS | Nag Hammadi Studies |
| NICNT | New International Commentary on the New Testament |
| NIGTC | New International Greek Testament Commentary |
| NovTSup | Supplements to Novum Testamentum |
| NPNF1 | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1. Edited by Philip Schaff. 14 vols. New York: Scribner’s Sons. 1898–1909 catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011984014 |
| NPNF2 | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. 14 vols. New York: The Christian Literature Company. 1890–1900 catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001399409 |
| NTAbh | Neutestamentliche Abhandlungen |
| NTL | New Testament Library |
| NTOA | Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus |
| NTS | New Testament Studies |
| OCP | Orientalia Christiana Periodica |
| OCT | Oxford Classical Texts/Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca oxoniensis |
| OECS | Oxford Early Christian Studies |
| OLA | Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta |
| Omega | Omega: Journal of Death and Dying |
| OralTrad | Oral Tradition |
| OrChrAn | Orientalia Christiana Analecta |
| OSCC | Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture |
| OTP | Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Edited by James H. Charlesworth. 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1983–1985 |
| PAAJR | Proceedings of the American Academy of Jewish Research |
| PaP | Past and Present: A Journal of Scientific History |
| PCG | Poetae Comici Graeci. Edited by R. Kassel and C. Austin. 8 vols. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1983–2001 |
| PEG | Poetae Epici Graeci: Testimonia et Fragmenta. Edited by A. Bernabé. BSGRT. Leipzig: Teubner, 1996–2007 |
| PF | Papyrologica Florentina |
| PG | Patrologiae Cursus Completus: Series Graeca. Edited by Jacques-Paul Migne. 162 vols. Paris, 1857–1886 catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100604285 |
| Phoenix | Phoenix: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada |
| PhoenixSup | Phoenix Supplements |
| PL | Patrologiae Cursus Completus: Series Latina. Edited by Jacques-Paul Migne. 217 vols. Paris, 1844–1864 catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007035196 |
| PMG | Poetae Melici Graeci. Edited by D. L. Page. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962 |
| PRSt | Perspectives in Religious Studies |
| PTS | Patristische Texte und Studien |
| PVTG | Pseudepigrapha Veteris Testamenti Graece |
| QUCC | Quaderni urbinati di cultura classica |
| R&T | Religion and Theology |
| RAC | Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum |
| RB | Revue biblique |
| RevAnt | Revealing Antiquity |
| RevExp | Review and Expositor |
| RGRW | Religions in the Graeco-Roman World |
| RKST | Regensburger Klassikstudien |
| RL | Religion and Literature |
| RNT | Regensburger Neues Testament |
| RSECW | Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World |
| RSR | Routledge Studies in Religion |
| SAAA | Studies on the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles |
| SAQ | Sammlung ausgewählter kirchen- und dogmengeschichtlicher Quellenschriften |
| SBJT | Southern Baptist Journal of Theology |
| SBLMS | Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series |
| SBLSP | Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers |
| SBLSymS | Society of Biblical Literature Symposium Series |
| SBLTT | Society of Biblical Literature Texts and Translations |
| SBS | Stuttgarter Bibelstudien |
| SC | Sources chrétiennes |
| ScEs | Science et esprit |
| SD | Studies and Documents |
| SEG | Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. Edited by Jacob E. Hondius et al. 61+ vols. Leiden: Brill, 1923– |
| SemeiaSt | Semeia Studies |
| SFA | Studies in Funerary Archaeology |
| SGFWLUM | Schriften der Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Westfälischen Landes-Universität zu Münster |
| SGRR | Studies in Greek and Roman Religion |
| SIG | Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum. Edited by Wilhelm Dittenberger. 4 vols. 3rd ed. Leipzig: Hirzel, 1915–1924. Inscriptions online at Searchable Greek Inscriptions. The Packard Humanities Institute. Cornell University and Ohio State University epigraphy.packhum.org |
| SJ | Studia Judaica |
| SMAL | Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology and Literature |
| SNTSMS | Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series |
| SQAW | Schriften und Quellen der alten Welt |
| SR | Studies in Religion |
| STAC | Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum |
| STAR | Studies in Theology and Religion |
| StBibLit | Studies in Biblical Literature |
| StPP | Studien zur Palaeographie und Papyruskunde |
| SVF | Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta. Hans Friedrich August von Arnim. 4 vols. Leipzig: Teubner, 1903–1924 Vol. 1: archive.org/stream/stoicorumveterum01arniuoft Vol. 2: archive.org/stream/stoicorumveterum02arniuoft Vol. 3: archive.org/stream/stoicorumveterum03arniuoft Vol. 4: archive.org/stream/stoicorumveterum04arniuoft |
| SVigChr | Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae |
| SVTP | Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha |
| TAM | Tituli Asiae Minoris. 5 vols. Edited by Ernst Kalinka, Rudolf Heberdey, Friedrich Karl Dörner, and Peter Herrmann. Vienna, 1901–1989. Inscriptions online at Searchable Greek Inscriptions. The Packard Humanities Institute. Cornell University and Ohio State University epigraphy.packhum.org |
| TANZ | Texte und Arbeiten zum neutestamentlichen Zeitalter |
| TAPA | Transactions of the American Philological Association |
| TBNGP | Texte und Forschungen zur byzantinisch-neugriechischen Philologie |
| TC | Trends in Classics |
| TDNT | Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. Edited by Gerhard Kittel and Gerhard Friedrich. Translated by Geoffrey W. Bromiley. 10 vols. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1964–1976 |
| TGF | Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta. Edited by August Nauck. Leipzig: Teubner, 1889 archive.org/stream/tragicorumgraeco00naucuoft |
| TJT | Toronto Journal of Theology |
| TrGF | Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta. Edited by A. Nauck; supplements by B. Snell, R. Kannicht, and S. Radit. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1971–2004 (1889) |
| TS | Theological Studies |
| TSAJ | Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum |
| UALG | Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte |
| UKPHS | University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies |
| UT | Ugaritic Textbook. Cyrus H. Gordon. AnOr 38. Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1965 |
| VC | Vigiliae Christianae |
| VL | Vita Latina |
| VT | Vetus Testamentum |
| VTSup | Supplements to Vetus Testamentum |
| WGRW | Writings from the Greco-Roman World |
| WUNT | Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament |
| ZAC | Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum/Journal of Ancient Christianity |
| ZBK | Zürcher Bibelkommentare |
| ZNW | Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche |
| ZPE | Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik |