Appendix II - The Literature
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
Summary
The lists which follow name the titles of the principal Jewish and Christian documents of the period covered by this book and the abbreviated forms in which they are customarily cited.
BOOKS OF THE BIBLE
Standard abbreviations are given below in the order in which the books are printed in the English Bible. Where the full title is customarily used without abbreviation, no stop is printed.
The Song of Songs is sometimes called the Song of Solomon. Ecclesiasticus (Ecclus.) is also referred to as The Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach, or as The Wisdom of Ben Sirach (or of Ben Sira) or simply as Ben Sira. This book of the Apocrypha should be distinguished from Ecclesiastes (Eccles.), a book of the Old Testament.
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- The Jewish and Christian World 200 BC to AD 200 , pp. 229 - 236Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1984