Chief Abbreviations
Chief Abbreviations
AV
English Authorized Version (King James).
BDB
Hebrew-English Lexicon of the Old Testament
Berkeley
The Holy Bible
The Berkeley Version in Modern English
Cassel
Joshua, Judges and Ruth
A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures
Cooke
The Book of Ruth
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
FF
The Holy Bible in Modern English
Gerleman
Ruth
Biblischer Kommentar Altes Testament
Herbert
Peake’s Commentary on the Bible
Hertzberg
Die Bücher Josua, Richter, Ruth
Das Alte Testament Deutsch
HS
Hebrew Syntax
IB
Interpreter’s Bible
Ruth
Joüon
Ruth Commentaire Philologique et Exégétique
KB
Lexicon in Veteris Testamenti Libros
KD
Joshua, Judges, Ruth
Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament
Knight
Ruth and Jonah
The Torch Bible Commentaries
Knox
The Holy Bible, A Translation from the Latin Vulgate in the Light of the Hebrew and Greek Originals
Lattey
The Book of Ruth
The Westminster Version of the Sacred Scriptures
Learoyd
A New Commentary on Holy Scripture
LXX
The Septuagint (pre-Christian Greek version of the Old Testament).
Macdonald
The New Bible Commentary
2
mg.
margin.
Moffatt
A New Translation of the Old Testament
MT
Massoretic Text.
Myers
The Linguistic and Literary Form of the Book of Ruth
NBD
The New Bible Dictionary
RSV
American Revised Standard Version, 1952.
Rudolph
Das Buch Ruth—Das Hohe Lied—Die Klagelieder
Kommentar zum Alten Testament
Rust
Judges, Ruth, I & II Samuel
Layman’s Bible Commentaries
Simeon
Horae Homileticae
Slotki
The Five Megilloth
TWNT
Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament
Vulg.
The Vulgate (translation of the Bible into Latin, by Jerome).
Wright
The Book of Ruth in Hebrew