929 Project: Abbreviations and Acronyms
July 15, 2018
This is a placeholder page to list abbreviations and acronyms that I use my 929 series of posts. This list of abbreviations and acronyms will expand as I go through the series.
| 929 English | The English 929 website |
| 929 Hebrew | The Hebrew 929 website |
| Alter | See HB-A |
| BR | Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig’s German translation of the Hebrew Bible. |
| BT | Babylonian Talmud. I recommend the version here. |
| DRC | Richard Challoner’s revision of the Douay-Rheims Bible. I recommend the version here. |
| EB-NCE | The Norton Critical Edition of the English Bible |
| Fox | See Shoc |
| HB-A | Robert Alter’s translation and commentary on the Hebrew Bible, scheduled to be published in December 2018. Until publication, references will be to Alter’s current versions, including his Five Books of Moses. |
| JSB14 | The Jewish Study Bible (2014 edition) |
| KJB | See KJV below |
| KJV | The King James translation of the Hebrew Bible. Widely available (for example, here). For printed versions, I recommend the EB-NCE. |
| LXX | Septuagint translations. This refers to a corpus of ancient Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible. Note that multiple translations exist, so it is an error to refer to the Septuagint. I recommend the Göttingen Septuaginta. For English translation, I recommend NETS. |
| M | The Mishnah. I recommend the version here. |
| MSG | The Message by Eugene Patterson |
| MT | Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible (here is one resource) |
| NABRE | New American Bible Revised Edition |
| NETS | New English Translation of the Septuagint |
| NIV11 | New International Version (2011 edition) |
| NJPS | Jewish Publication Society translation of the Hebrew Bible 1985 version. For printed versions, I recommend the JSB14. Online version here. |
| NLT15 | New Living Translation (2015 version) |
| NOAB77 | The New Oxford Annotated Bible (1977 version) |
| NOAB18 | The New Oxford Annotated Bible (2018 version) |
| NRSV | New Revised Standard translation of the Bible. Widely available (for example, here). For printed versions, I recommend the NOAB18. |
| RSV | Revised Standard translation of the Bible. This went through several versions; I will quote the version as published in the NOAB77. |
| Shoc | The Shocken Bible being translated by Everett Fox. The Pentateuch and Early Prophets volumes are in print. |
| Targ | Ancient Aramaic translations of the Bible (Targum) – see here, here, here, here, here, and here, for example. |
| Vulg | Latin translation of the bible (Vulgate). I recommend the version here. |
| Zoh | The Zohar. I will use Daniel Matt’s Aramaic version and Daniel Matt’s English “Pritzker Edition” translation and commentary. |
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