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Abbreviations

For ancient works, the footnotes follow the style of Patrick H. Alexander and others, The SBL Handbook of Style for Ancient Near Eastern Biblical and Early Christian Studies (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 1999).

ABD

Freedman, David Noel, ed. The Anchor Bible Dictionary. 6 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

BAGD

Arndt, William F., and F. Wilbur Gingrich, ed. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 2d ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957.

BDAG

Danker, Frederick William, ed. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

BDB

Brown, Francis, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Corrected ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.

BDF

Blass, F., and A. Debrunner. A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. Trans. and ed. Robert W. Funk. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1961.

D&C

Doctrine and Covenants. Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1981.

DAG

Montanari, Franco. The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek. Ed. Madeleine Goh and Chad Schroeder. Leiden: Brill, 2015.

DNTC

McConkie, Bruce R. Doctrinal New Testament Commentary. 3 vols. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1965–73.

EM

Ludlow, Daniel H., ed. Encyclopedia of Mormonism. 4 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

HAL

Köhler, L., W. Baumgartner, and J. J. Stamm. The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament. Trans. and ed. M. E. J. Richardson. 5 vols. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994–2000.

JD

Journal of Discourses. 26 vols. London: Latter-day Saints Book Depot, 1854–86.

JST

Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible.

KJV

King James Version of the Bible.

LSJ

Liddell, Henry G., and Robert Scott, comp. Greek English Lexicon. Rev. and aug. Henry Stuart Jones. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.

LXX

Septuagint version of the Old Testament.

MM

Moulton, James H., and George Milligan. The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament: Illustrations from the Papyri and Other Non-literary Sources. 1930. Rpt., Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 1985.

NID

Silva, Moisés. New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology and Exegesis. 5 vols. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2014.

NIV

New International Version.

NR

New Rendition.

NRSV

New Revised Standard Version.

SCI

Liddle, Stephen W., and Richard C. Galbraith. Scripture Citation Index. Version 3.5.0. https://scriptures.byu.edu.

TDNT

Kittel, Gerhard, and Gerhard Freidrich, eds. Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. Trans. Geoffrey W. Bromiley. 10 vols. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1964–76.

TDOT

Botterweck, G. Johannes, Helmer Ringgren, and Heinz-Josef Fabry, eds. Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament. Trans. David E. Green. 17 vols. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1974–2021.