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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

ABL = Assyrian and Babylonian Letters (Harper) ADD = Assyrian Documents and Deeds (Johns) Arakh.= Tractate Arakhin b, B, BT = Bavli, Babylonian B.Bat. = Tractate Baba Batra BE = Babylonian Expedition of Univ. of Pennsylvania, Series A: CT Bikk. = Tractate B.Metz. = Tractate Baba Metzia BU = British Museum (Signature Budge) B.Qam. = Tractate Baba Qama CH = Code of Hammurapi CIS = Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum CT = Cunieform Texts D = Deuteronomist Editor Dar = Darius E = Elohist Editor Eruv. = Tractate Gitt. = Tractate GPA = Governor’s Palace Archives H = Holiness Code Editor Hil. = Hilkhot Hor. = Tractate Horai’ot HSS = Harvard Semitic Series J = Yahwist Editor

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JEN = Joint Expedition at Nuzi K = Kouyunjik Collections of the British Museum Ker. = Tractate Kereitot Ki = King’s Excavations (L.W. King Collection of British Museum) LB = Late Babylonian LE = Laws of Eshnunna LH = Laws of Hammurapi LL = Laws of Lipit Ishtar LU = Laws of Ur-Namma LXX = Septuagint m, M = MAL = Middle Assyrian Laws Ma’as.Sh. = Ma’aser Sheni MB = Middle Babylonian MishTor = Mishneh MS, MSS = Manuscript, Manuscripts MSL = Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon MT = Masoretic Text N = Nuzi (according to Saarisalo, 1934) NA = Neo-Assyrian NB = Neo-Babylonian NRVU = Neubabylonische Rechts- und Verwaltungsurkunden (M. San Nicolo and A. Ungnad, 1929) NT = New Testament OA = Old Assyrian OB = Old Babylonian P = Priestly Editor PBP = pisqa ba’emtza pasuq Qidd. = Tractate Qiddushin RCAE = Royal Correspondence of the Assyrian Empire SAA = State Archives of Assyria San. = Tractate Shabb. = Tractate SP = Samaritan Pentateuch t, T = Tosea Ta’an. = Tractate Ta’anit

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TCL = Textes cunéiforms du Louvre TK = S. Lieberman, KiFeshutah TY = Yonatan (Pseudo-Jonathan) to the Pentateuch UAZP = Urkunden des Altbabylonischen Zivil- und Prozessrechts (M. Schorr, 1913) VAB = Vorderasiatische Bibliothek VAS = Vorderasiatische Schridenkmäler y, Y, YT = Yerushalmi, YBT = Yale Babylonian Texts Yev. = Tractate Zev. = Tractate Zevaḥim

Manuscript Abbreviations

MISHNAH (Parma De Rossi 138 (Mishnah = פ (Kaufmann A50 (Mishnah = ק (Rambam Autograph (Mishnah = ר (Cambridge Add. 470.1 (Mishnah = ל Various geniza agments noted in situ = ג Napoli Edition of Mishnah 1492 = ד

TOSEFTA (Erfurt (Tosea = ע (Vienna Cod. Hebr. 20 (Tosea = ב

SIFRA (Assemani 66 (Sia = א (Vatican 31 (Sia = ר (Breslau (Sia = ב (Parma (Sia = ג (Venice Edition (Sia = ד (Oxford (Sia = ה (London (Sia = ל

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TALMUD Leiden MS of Yerushalmi = י (.geniza agment Cambridge TSE II 88 (bKer = ג (.Vatican Ebr. 113 (mKet = ז (.Vatican Ebr. 119 (mKer., bKer = ו (.Vatican Ebr. 130 (mKet = ט (Munich 95 MS (BT = מ F = Firenze Nationale Central Biblioteca II.⒈7 (bKer.) L = London British Museum Add. 25, 717 (bKer.) V120 = Vatican Ebr. 120 (bKer.)

MIDRASH AND TARGUM HaGadol = מ Midrash Ḥakhamim = ח Yalqut Shimoni = ש

Sa = Targum to Samaritan Pentateuch, MS A Sj = Targum to Samaritan Pentateuch, MS J

SIGLA FOR CRITICAL APPARATUS ∩ = sign for homeoteleuton in critical apparatus [ = sign for end of lemma and start of variants ̊ = correction in MS ̊ ̊ = correction in MS in a different hand (when it can be determined) ~ = sign for marginal note in MS * = most MSS have given reading * = most MSS have given reading - some minor variation in orthography/ abbreviation <>= secondary and tertiary witnesses { } = text not readable in base text but completed by other MSS

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Abbreviations used in the bibliography:

AHW Akkadisches Handworterbuch AJS Review Association for Jewish Studies Review AOS American Oriental Series ARSP Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie BiOr Bibliotheca Orientalis BZAW Beihee zur Zeitschri r die alttestamentliche Wissenscha CAD Chicago Assyrian Dictionary COD Canadian Oxford Dictionary DJD Discoveries in the Judean Desert DSD Dead Sea Discoveries EM Encyclopedia Miqrait (Encyclopedia of Bible) IEJ Israel Exploration Journal JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society JBL Journal of Biblical Literature JCS Journal of Cuneiform Studies JHCS Journal of Halakhah and Contemporary Society JJS Journal of Jewish Studies JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies JQR Jewish Quarterly Review JSOT Journal for the Study of the Old Testament JSS Journal of Semitic Studies JTSA Jewish Theological Seminary of America OED Shorter Oxford English Dictionary PAAJS Proceedings of the American Association of Jewish Studies RA Revue d’assyriologie RAI Rencontre assyriologique internationale RIDA Revue internationale des droits de l’antinquité SAAS State Archives of Assyria Studies TWOT Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (from 2006 version) VT Vetus Testamentum ZA Zeitschrift für der Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete ZAW Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

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