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LIST OF TABLES
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
ABDAnchor Bible Dictionary
ANFThe Ante-Nicene Fathers
ASRAustin Seminary Review
BABiblical Archeologist
BBRBulletin for Biblical Research
BDAG Bauer, W., F. W. Danker, W. F. Arndt, and F. W. Gingrich.
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early
Christian Literature. 3rd ed.
BDB Brown, F., S. R. Driver, and C. A. Briggs. A Hebrew and
English Lexicon of the Old Testament
BibBiblica
BJRLBulletin of the John Rylands University Library
BSacBibliotheca Sacra
BTBBiblical Theology Bulletin
CBQCatholic Biblical Quarterly
CBQMS Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series
CRINT Compendia rerum iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum
CTM Concordia Theological Monthly
CTRCriswell Theological Review
DBIDictionary of Biblical Imagery
DJGDictionary of Jesus and the Gospels
DOTPDictionary of the Old Testament Pentateuch
DPLDictionary of Paul and His Letters
EBCThe Expositor's Bible Commentary
Eng. English Translation
EvQEvangelical Quarterly
ExAudEx auditu
ExpTimExpository Times
GBH P. Joon, A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew, 2 vols, trans, and
rev. T. Muraoka
GKC Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar. Edited by E. Kautzsch.
Translated by A. E. Cowley
HALOT L. Koehler, W. Baumgartner, and J. J. Stamm, The Hebrew
and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, trans. M. E. J.
Richardson
Hb. Hebrew
Hey]Heythrop Journal
HTRHarvard Theological Review
ICC International Critical Commentary
ISBEInternational Standard Bible Encyclopedia
IVPNTC IVP New Testament Commentary Series
JETSJournal of the Evangelical Theological Society
JSNTJournal for the Study of the New Testament
JSNTSup Journal for the Study of the New Testament: Supplement
Series
JSSJournal of Semitic Studies
JTSJournal of Theological Studies
LCL Loeb Classical Library
LSJ H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon.
9th ed. with revised supplement
MM Moulton, J. H., and G. Milligan. The Vocabulary of the Greek
Testament
MT Masoretic Text
NA27Novum Testamentum Graece, Nestle-Aland, 27th ed.
NAC New American Commentary
NDBT New Dictionary of Biblical Theology
NeotNeotestamentica
NICNT New International Commentary on the New Testament
NIDNTT New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology
NIDOTTENew International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and
Exegesis
NIGTC New International Greek Testament Commentary
NIVAC NIV Application Commentary
NovT Novum Testamentum
NovTSup Supplements to Novum Testamentum
NPNF1 A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of
the Christian Church, Series 1
NPNF2 A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of
the Christian Church, Series 2
NTApoc New Testament Apocrypha
NTSNew Testament Studies
OTL Old Testament Library
OTPOld Testament Pseudepigrapha
PNTC Pillar New Testament Commentaries
RefRReformed Review
RevQRevue de Qumran
RTRReformed Theological Review
SBJTThe Southern Baptist Journal of Theology
SBLDS Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series
SBETScottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology
SBT2 Studies in Biblical Theology, Second Series
SBTS Sources for Biblical and Theological Study
SJTScottish Journal of Theology
SNTA Studiorum Novi Testamenti Auxilia
SNTSMS Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series
SP Sacra Pagina
SwJTSouthwestern Journal of Theology
TDNJTheological Dictionary of the New Testament
TDOTTheological Dictionary of the Old Testament
ThemThemelios
TJTrinity Journal
TJTToronto Journal of Theology
TOTC Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries
TynBulTyndale Bulletin
UBS4The Greek New Testament, United Bible Societies, 4th ed.
VEVox evangelica
WBC Word Biblical Commentary
WUNT Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament
ZAW Zeitschrift fr die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
ZNW Zeitschrift fr die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die
Kunde der lteren Kirche
ZTK Zeitschrift fr Theologie und Kirche
SERIES PREFACE
We live in an exciting era of evangelical scholarship. Many fine educational institutions committed to the inerrancy of Scripture are training men and women to serve Christ in the church and to advance the gospel in the world. Many church leaders and professors are skillfully and fearlessly applying God's Word to critical issues, asking new questions and developing new tools to answer those questions from Scripture. They are producing valuable new resources to thoroughly equip current and future generations of Christ's servants.
The Bible is an amazing source of truth and an amazing tool when wielded by God's Spirit for God's glory and our good. It is a bottomless well of living water, a treasure house of endless proportions. Like an ancient tell, exciting discoveries can be made on the surface, but even more exciting are those to be found by digging. The books in this series, NAC Studies in Bible and Theology, often take a biblical difficulty as their point of entry, remembering B. F. Westcott's point that unless all past experience is worthless, the difficulties of the Bible are the most fruitful guides to its divine depths.
This new series is to be a medium through which the work of evangelical scholars can effectively reach the church. It will include detailed exegetical-theological studies of key pericopes such as the Sermon on the Mount and also fresh examinations of topics in biblical theology and systematic theology. It is intended to supplement the New American Commentary, whose exegetical and theological discussions so many have found helpful. These resources are aimed primarily at church leaders and those who are preparing for such leadership. We trust that individual Christians will find them to be an encouragement to greater progress and joy in the faith. More important, our prayer is that they will help the church proclaim Christ more accurately and effectively and that they will bring praise and glory to our great God.
It is a tremendous privilege to be partners in God's grace with the fine scholars writing for this new series as well as with those who will be helped by it. When Christ returns, may He find us standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, working side by side for the faith of the gospel (Phil 1:27, HCSB).
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