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Academic texts typically use acronyms to refer to books in Tana"ch, Talmud, and rabbinic literature. I am presently working on editing the citations given within a translation to bring them more in line with academic standards. However, I have only been able to find abbreviations for biblical books and sha"s. Is there any resource for academic abbreviations for other sefarim in Rabbinic literature?

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    To closure voters: This question is 100% explicitly about Judaism.
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    Aug 13, 2014 at 13:05
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    Related (and not closed): judaism.stackexchange.com/q/7171/3
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    Aug 13, 2014 at 18:08
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    @IsaacMoses I cast the first close vote and am not sure why this is about Judaism. If I ask for a list of fonts used by publishers who happen to be Jewish book publishers, would that be on topic? This is a question which has to do with something Jewish, but so is a question about matzah ball recipes
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    @YEZ This is about study of Jewish texts. There is no more Jewish activity.
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    Aug 14, 2014 at 1:35
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    @IsaacMoses Yes. How about questions about Jews, which is explicitly off-topic? I think generally experts on Judaism happen to be more aware of that also. Experts on Judaism aren't more likely to know this, or that, because of their expertise in Judaism, it's because of external details.
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Try the preface of an academic-style book on Talmud. The better editions of the Jastrow dictionary have an abbreviations page that I believe covers Talmud Bavli, Yerushlami, and Medrash including some names and lots of academic abbreviations other than titles.

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  • There's an online edition of Jastrow here. English abbreviations begin on the second page of Abbreviations.
    – Isaac Moses ♦
    Aug 13, 2014 at 17:29
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    I've been using that online edition for years and never once bothered to look for the abbreviations page! Editing in now.
    – Yitzchak
    Aug 13, 2014 at 17:31
  • It didn't have many of the abbreviations I was looking for.
    – Noach MiFrankfurt
    Aug 14, 2014 at 1:45
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Yes! I have always found קובץ ראשי תיבות וקיצורים and אוצר ראשי תיבות (free older print on HebrewBooks) to be extremely useful in breaking down roshei teivos that I did not understand.

Additionally, while I haven't used them at all (and therefore can't vouch for their reliability/usefulness), these websites (1, 2) from a Google search may also be of use to you.

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Look in the luach roshei teivos in the back of the tanya. You'll find most of them there. Let me know if this helps

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    Rashei teivot work if I'm looking for the Hebrew forms, I'm looking for standard academic ones though.
    – Noach MiFrankfurt
    Aug 13, 2014 at 2:07
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    @NoachmiFrankfurt there are academics who write in Hebrew too
    – Double AA ♦
    Aug 13, 2014 at 17:33
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    Yeah but they tend to have their own set of abbreviations.
    – Yitzchak
    Aug 13, 2014 at 18:35
  • @DoubleAA, I realise, however since I am editing the citations in a translation, it seems kind of backwards to use Hebrew r"t.
    – Noach MiFrankfurt
    Aug 13, 2014 at 19:21
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    @NoachmiFrankfurt I believe that DoubleAA is hinting that you ought to edit the question so that readers know, without digging, that you specifically want English abbreviations.
    – Isaac Moses ♦
    Aug 14, 2014 at 2:39

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