Abbreviations
| AB | Analecta Bollandiana |
| BSGRT | Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana |
| BSOAS | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies |
| CCSL | Corpus Christianorum Series Latina |
| CHRC | Church History and Religious Culture |
| CSCO | Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium |
| CSEL | Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum |
| GCS | Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller |
| HTR | Harvard Theological Review |
| HUCA | Hebrew Union College Annual |
| JECS | Journal of Early Christian Studies |
| JJS | Journal of Jewish Studies |
| JSS | Journal of Semitic Studies |
| LCL | Loeb Classical Library |
| OC | Oriens Christianus |
| OCA | Orientalia Christiana Analecta |
| OCP | Orientalia Christiana Periodica |
| OLA | Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta |
| PdO | Parole de l’Orient |
| PG | Patrologia Graeca = Patrologia cursus completus: series graeca, edited by J.-P. Migne, 162 vols (Paris, 1857–1886). |
| PO | Patrologia Orientalis |
| PTS | Patristische Texte und Studien |
| ROC | Revue de l’Orient chrétien |
| SC | Sources chrétiennes |
| TSAJ | Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism |
| TTH | Translated Texts for Historians |
| TUGAL | Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur |
| VC | Vigiliae Christianae |
| VT | Vetus Testamentum |
| WUNT | Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament |
| ZAC | Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum |
| ZDMG | Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft |
Conventions
Most of the abbreviations of the titles of works by ancient writers used throughout the book may be found in The SBL Handbook of Style, edited by Patrick H. Alexander et al. (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 1999).
For transcribing Syriac, I use a slightly modified version of the simplified transcription system outlined by Sebastian P. Brock and adopted by the Library of Congress.1
The Peshitta version of the Old Testament is quoted according to the edition The Old Testament in Syriac according to the Peshiṭta Version, 18 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1966–2019).
Unless indicated otherwise, all translations of Syriac and other ancient texts in the book are mine.
The description is available online at https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/syriac.pdf.