| A1 | Text edited in Abraham 2005/2006 |
| A2 | Text edited in Abraham 2007 |
| abc | Grayson 1975a |
| abs | Archaeology and Biblical Studies |
| AfO | Archiv für Orientforschung |
| ail | Ancient Israel and Its Literature |
| anem | Ancient Near East Monographs |
| aoat | Alter Orient und Altes Testament |
| AoF | Altorientalische Forschungen |
| B | Texts edited in Wunsch (forthcoming) |
| BaAr | Babylonische Archive |
| basor | Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research |
| BE 8 | Clay 1908 |
| BE 9 | Hilprecht and Clay 1898 |
| BE 10 | Clay 1904 |
| bin 1 | Keiser, Clarence Elwood. Letters and Contracts from Erech Written in the Neo-Babylonian Period. Babylonian Inscriptions in the Collection of James B. Nies 1. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1918. |
| BiOr | Bibliotheca Orientalis |
| BM | Tablets in the collections of the British Museum |
| bma | Texts edited in Roth 1989 |
| BN | Biblische Notizen |
| bsa | Bulletin on Sumerian Agriculture |
| bzaw | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft |
| C | Texts edited in Pearce and Wunsch 2014 |
| cad | The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1956–2011. |
| Camb | Strassmaier, J.N. Inschriften von Cambyses, König von Babylon. Babylonische Texte ix. Leipzig: Eduard Pfeiffer, 1890. |
| CatBM | Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum |
| chane | Culture and History of the Ancient Near East |
| CLeO | Classica et Orientalia |
| CM | Cuneiform Monographs |
| CT 4 | Pinches, T.G. Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum 4. London: The British Museum, 1898. |
| CT 55–57 | Pinches, T.G. Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, vols. 55–57. London: The British Museum, 1982. |
Cuneiform Texts Mentioning Israelites, Judeans, and Related Population Groups | |
| (http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ctij/corpus) | |
| ctmma 4 | Texts edited in Spar and Jursa 2014 |
| Cyr | Strassmaier, J.N. Inschriften von Cyrus, König von Babylon. Babylonische Texte vii. Leipzig: Eduard Pfeiffer, 1890. |
| Dar | Strassmaier, J.N. Inschriften von Darius, König von Babylon. Babylonische Texte x–xii. Leipzig: Eduard Pfeiffer, 1892–1897. |
| EE | Texts edited in Stolper 1985 |
| gag | von Soden, Wolfram. Grundriss der akkadischen Grammatik samt Ergänzungsheft zum Grundriss der akkadischen Grammatik. Analecta Orientalia 33/47. Rome: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1969. |
| gmtr | Guides to the Mesopotamian Textual Record |
| HdO | Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 1: The Near and Middle East |
| hsm | Tablets in the collections of the Harvard Semitic Museum |
| imt | Texts edited in Donbaz and Stolper 1997 |
| iscanee | International Scholars Conference on Ancient Near Eastern Economies |
| J1–7 | Texts edited in Joannès and Lemaire 1996 |
| J8–9 | Texts edited in Joannès and Lemaire 1999 |
| janeh | Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History |
| jaos | Journal of the American Oriental Society |
| jbl | Journal of Biblical Literature |
| jcs | Journal of Cuneiform Studies |
| jesho | Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient |
| jnes | Journal of Near Eastern Studies |
| jsj | Journal for the Study of Judaism |
| jsots | Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series |
| kai | Texts edited in Donner and Röllig 2002 |
| ktu | Dietrich, Manfred et al. The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places. Second, enlarged edition. Abhandlungen zur Literatur Alt-Syrien-Palästinas und Mesopotamiens 8. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 1995. |
| laos | Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien |
| MR | Texts edited in Waerzeggers 2014a |
| nabu | Nouvelles Assyriologiques Bréves et Utilitaires |
| Nbk | Strassmaier, J.N. Inschriften von Nabuchodonosor, König von Babylon. Babylonische Texte v–vi. Leipzig: Eduard Pfeiffer, 1889. |
| Nbn | Strassmaier, J.N. Inschriften von Nabonidus, König von Babylon. Babylonische Texte i–iv. Leipzig: Eduard Pfeiffer, 1889. |
| ND | Field numbers of tablets excavated at Nimrud |
McEwan, G.J.P. Late Babylonian Texts in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts 10. Oxford: Clarendon, 1984. | |
| oip 122 | Weisberg, David B. Neo-Babylonian Texts in the Oriental Institute Collection. Oriental Institute Publications 122. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2003. |
| ois | Oriental Institute Seminars |
| ola | Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta |
| pihans | Uitgaven van het Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul = Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden |
| pbs 2/1 | Clay 1912 |
| pna | The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 1998–. |
| RA | Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale |
| rinap 1 | Tadmor, Hayim and Yamada, Shigeo. The Royal Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser iii (744–727 bc), and Shalmaneser V (726–722 bc), Kings of Assyria. The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period 1. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2011. |
| rinap 3 | Grayson, A. Kirk and Novotny, Jamie. The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704–681 bc), vols. 1–2. The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period 3. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2012–2014. |
| rinap 4 | Leichty, Erle. The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (680–669 bc). The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period 4. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2011. |
| RlA | Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1928–2018. |
| romct 2 | McEwan, G.J.P. The Late Babylonian Tablets in the Royal Ontario Museum. Royal Ontario Museum Cuneiform Texts 2. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1982. |
| saa 1 | Parpola, Simo. The Correspondence of Sargon ii, Part i: Letters from Assyria and the West. State Archives of Assyria 1. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 1987. |
| saa 6 | Kwasman, Theodore and Parpola, Simo. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part i: Tiglath-pileser iii through Esarhaddon. State Archives of Assyria 6. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 1991. |
| saa 7 | Fales, F.M. and Postgate, J.N. Imperial Administative Records, Part i: Palace and Temple Administration. State Archives of Assyria 7. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 1992. |
State Archives of Assyria Bulletin | |
| saoc | Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization |
| sct | Gordon, Cyrus H. Smith College Tablets: 110 Cuneiform Texts Selected from the College Collection. Smith College Studies in History 38. Northampton: Department of History of Smith College, 1952. |
| TA | Tel Aviv |
| tad A | Porten, Bezalel and Yardeni, Ada. Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt, vol. 1: Letters. Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1986. |
| tcl 13 | Contenau, G. Contrats néo-babyloniens, vol. 2: Achéménides et Séleucides. Textes cunéiformes, Musée du Louvre 13. Paris: Geuthner, 1929. |
| tsaj | Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism |
| TuM 2–3 | Texts edited in Krückmann 1933 |
| ucp 9/3 | Text edited in Lutz 1928 |
| UF | Ugarit-Forschungen |
| van Driel | Working notes and transliterations of the Murašû texts by Govertworkingvan Driel and his students, archived at Leiden Universitynotes |
| VS 3–6 | Ungnad, Arthur. Vorderasiatische Schriftdenkmäler der königlichen Museen zu Berlin, vols. 3–6. Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1907–1908. |
| VT | Vetus Testamentum |
| VTSup | Supplements to Vetus Testamentum |
| WdO | Die Welt des Orients |
| wzkm | Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes |
| yos 6 | Dougherty, Raymond Philip. Records from Erech, Time of Nabonidus (555–538 b.c.). Yale Oriental Series, Babylonian Texts 6. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920. |
| yos 19 | Beaulieu, Paul-Alain. Legal and Administrative Texts from the Reign of Nabonidus. Yale Oriental Series, Babylonian Texts 19. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. |
| ZA | Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie |
| zaw | Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft |
| zdmg | Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft |