A few weeks ago, I wrote a post pointing to the Acronym Replacer plugin for WordPress. Tyler Williams suggested that we get a list of acronyms for biblical studies for those of us who are writing biblioblogs. I took a few minutes today to type in a few of the more common acronyms for our field. The text is reproduced below. All you need to do is replace or add the list to the array in you acronyms.php file.

Please note that the list is far from complete. I used the SBL Handbook of Style for the acronyms, plus a few that I use more often. This represents only a small percentage of the actual acronyms in the handbook, and because of my interests it is slanted towards the OT. If anyone is interested in adding more acronyms to the list, feel free to send your acronyms to me and I will try to keep the latest list on file here. Please note the syntax of the array when you are writing it, especially the comma at the end of each entry. Leaving out the comma causes an error message.

Here is the list:

“AABS” => “Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars”,
“AB” => “Anchor Bible”,
“ABD” => “Anchor Bible Dictionary”,
“ABRL” => “Anchor Bible Reference Library”,
“ANET” => “Ancient Near Eastern Texts Related to the Old Testament”,
“ASOR” => “American Schools of Oriental Research”,
“AThR” => “Anglican Theological Review”,
“ATLA” => “American Theological Library Association”,
“BAG” => “Bauer, Arndt, and Gingrich Lexicon of the New Testament”,
“BAR” => “Biblical Archaeology Review”,
“BASOR” => “Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research”,
“BCE” => “Before the Common Era (non-sectarian term for BC)”,
“BDB” => “Brown, Driver, and Briggs Lexicon of the Old Testament”,
“BHS” => “Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia”,
“BRev” => “Bible Review”,
“BZAW” => “Beiheft zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft”,
“CAD” => “Chicago Assyrian Dictionary”,
“CBA” => “Catholic Biblical Association”,
“CBQ” => “Catholic Biblical Quarterly”,
“CE” => “Common Era (non-sectarian term for AD)”,
“DDD” => “Dictionar of Deities and Demons in the Bible”,
“DJD” => “Discoveries in the Judean Desert”,
“DSD” => “Dead Sea Discoveries”,
“DtrH” => “Deuteronomistic History (Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings)”,
“EA” => “The El-Amarna Letters”,
“EABS” => “European Association of Biblical Studies”,
“ECUSA” => “Episcopal Church of the United States of America”,
“HALOT” => “Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament”,
“HC” => “Holiness Code (Leviticus 17-26)”,
“HS” => “Holiness School”,
“IEJ” => “Israel Exploration Journal”,
“JAOS” => “Journal of the American Oriental Society”,
“JBL” => “Journal of Biblical Literature”,
“JEDP” => “The Yahwist, Elohist, Deuteronomist, and Priestly Sources”,
“JNES” => “Journal of Near Eastern Studies”,
“JSOT” => “Journal for the Study of the Old Testament”,
“KTU” => “Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit”,
“NIB” => “New Interpreter’s Bible”,
“NT” => “New Testament”,
“OT” => “Old Testament / Hebrew Bible”,
“PT” => “Priestly Torah”,
“RB” => “Revue biblique”,
“RBL” => “Review of Biblical Literature”,
“SBL” => “Society of Biblical Literature”,
“TDNT” => “Theological Dictionary of the New Testament”,
“TDOT” => “Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament”,
“VT” => “Vetus Testamentum”,
“ZAW” => “Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft”,

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