References and Abbreviations

by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson

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BDAG Walter Bauer and Frederick William Danker, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Third Edition; based on previous English editions by W.F. Arndt, F.W. Gingrich, and F.W. Danker; University of Chicago Press, 1957, 1979, 2000)
Brown Raymond E. Brown, The Epistles of John (Anchor Bible, vol. 30; Doubleday, 1982)
Bruce F.F. Bruce, The Epistles of John (Pickering & Inglis, 1970; Eerdmans, reprinted 1979)
ISBE Geoffrey W. Bromiley (general editor), The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (Eerdmans, 1979-1988; fully revised from the 1915 edition)
DLNT Ralph P. Martin and Peter H. Davids (editors), Dictionary of the Later New Testament and Its Developments (InterVarsity Press, 1997)
ESV English Standard Version
KJV King James Version (1611)
Liddell-Scott Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon (revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940). ISBN: 0198642261. An online version is used.
Marshall I. Howard Marshall, The Epistles of John (New International Commentary on the New Testament; Eerdmans, 1978)
NIV New International Version
NRSV New Revised Standard Version
Robertson A.T. Robertson, Word Pictures in the New Testament (Broadman Press, 1930, 6 volumes)
Smalley Stephen S. Smalley, 1, 2, 3 John (Vol. 51, Word Biblical Commentary; Word, 1984)
Stott John R. W. Stott, The Epistles of John (Tyndale New Testament Commentaries; Eerdmans, 1964)
TDNT Gerhard Kittel and Gerhard Friedrich (editors), Geoffrey W. Bromiley (translator and editor), Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, (Eerdmans, 1964-1976; translated from Theologisches Worterbuch zum Neuen Testament, ten volume edition)
Thayer Joseph Henry Thayer, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (Associated Publishers and Authors, n.d., reprinted from 1889 edition)
Vincent Marvin R. Vincent, Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (1886; reprinted: Hendrickson, 1985)
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