Notes
Abbreviations and Transliteration
Abbreviations follow the conventions in S. Hornblower, A. Spawforth and
E. Eidinow, eds., The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th edn (Oxford, 2012); D. N.
Freedman, ed., The Anchor Bible Dictionary (New York, 1992), lii– lxxviii, for
ancient texts not in OCD ; H. Danby, The Mishnah (Oxford, 1933), 806, for
tractates in the Mishnah and Tosefta; A. Berlin, ed., The Oxford Dictionary of
the Jewish Religion, 2nd edn (New York, 2011), xvii– xviii, for other rabbinic
texts; F. Garcia Martinez and E. J. C. Tigchelaar, eds., The Dead Sea Scrolls Study
Edition, 2 vols. (Leiden, 1997), for Dead Sea scrolls.
Other abbreviations:
AJAJ American Jewish Archives Journal
AJH American Jewish History
AJS Association for Jewish Studies
b. ben (‘son of’)
b. Babylonian Talmud
CP Classical Philology
BAR Biblical Archaeology Review
Heb. Hebrew
HJS Hungarian‑ Jewish Studies
HM History & Memory
HTR Harvard Theological Review
HUCA Hebrew Union College Annual
JAS Judeo‑ Arabic Studies
JBL Journal of Biblical Literature
JJS Journal of Jewish Studies
JJTP Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy
JQR Jewish Quarterly Review
JRS Journal of Roman Studies
JSJ Journal for the Study of Judaism
JSQ Jewish Studies Quarterly
JSS Jewish Social Studies