| ANET | J.B. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Text Relating to the Old Testament (Princeton, 1950; Ted., 1955) |
| Ar Or | Archiv Orientalni (Prague) |
| ARW | Archiv fur Religionswissenschaft (Freiburg/Leipzig) |
| BEFEO | Bulletin de l'Ecolefrancaise d'Extreme-Orient (Hanoi, Paris) |
| BJRL | Bulletin of the John Rylands Library (Manchester) |
| BSOAS | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (London) |
| CA | Current Anthropology (Chicago) |
| HJAS | Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies |
| HR | History of Religions (Chicago) |
| IIJ | Indo-Iranian Journal (La Haye) |
| JA | Journal Asiatique (Paris) |
| JAOS | Journal of the American Oriental Society |
| JAS | Journal of the Asiatic Society, Bombay Branch |
| JIES | Journal of Indo-European Studies (Montana) |
| JNES | Journal of Near Eastern Studies (Chicago) |
| JRAS | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (London) |
| JSS | Journal of Semitic Studies (Manchester) |
| OLZ | Orientalische Literatwrzeitung (Berlin/Leipzig) |
| RB | Revue Biblique (Paris) |
| REG | Revue des Etudes Grecques (Paris) |
| RHPR | Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophic religieuses |
| RHR | Revue de d'Histoire des Religions (Paris) |
| SMSR | Sludi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni (Rome) |
| VT | Vetiis Testamentwn (Leiden) |
| WdM | Worterbuch der Mythologie (Stuttgart) |