Submission Guidelines

Submissions must be sent as Microsoft Word documents. The text should be in Times New Roman 12 pt font, unless a special font is necessary, in which case, save the characters of the font into the document and notify the editor of the special font.

Headings should be set to Times New Roman 12 pt. font, double spaced, and aligned left. Paper should be set to letter (8.5”x11”). Paragraphs should be indented ½ inch with no additional space between paragraphs.

Blockquotes should be single spaced, no space before block quote, 12 pt. space after block quote, black font, Times New Roman 12 pt., regular face (not italic or bold unless from the original source), indented .5 inches on both sides, and aligned left.

Citations should appear in footnotes following current Turabian format and accompanied with a bibliography.

Sometimes a paper looks better if an extra space is added between paragraphs or if extra lines are added to the end of a page to begin a new section at the top of another page. Please do not tweak the appearance of the paper with extra spaces or paragraphs. The typesetter will make the text look right and extra spaces only make the typesetting stage all the more difficult.

Do	Don’t
Leave typesetting to the typesetter	Attempt to resolve widow and orphan lines
Use styles in Word’s Home menu	Use boldface instead of headings
Set tabs in the Styles menu	Insert a tab at every paragraph
Insert only one space after sentences and colons	Insert two spaces between sentences
Use a spell checker and grammar checker	Submit a paper full of errors
Reach out to the editor if you have any questions	Be afraid of the editor. He is a nice guy.

Transliterate single words or small groups of words, then provide the words in the original alphabet in parenthesis. The purpose of transliteration is to help readers who lack a background in biblical languages. If the article relies upon an advanced understanding of the biblical languages and integrates a significant amount of text in the original languages, then the transliteration may be skipped.

When transliterating Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, you will need some special characters:

ʾ ʿ ḥ ṭ ṣ ś š ā â ă ē ê ĕ ī î ō ô ŏ ū û

These characters are all available in Times New Roman (as are the Greek and Hebrew alphabets). To transliterate a word, write the transliteration in italics, then the word in parenthesis. Examples: rāqîʿa (רָקִיעַ); pisteuō (πιστεύω). Note: The transliteration is italicized, but the non-Latin letters are not. Also, for the lexical forms of Hebrew and Aramaic verbs, it is common practice to provide the consonants only. Examples: qṭl (קטל); ktb (כתב).

Hebrew/Aramaic

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Aramaic follows the same transliteration as Hebrew even though ṣērê and ḥôlem are frequently not markers of long vowels in Aramaic.

Greek

When writing about a specific papyrus, use 𝔓 with superscript (for example, 𝔓⁷⁵) and for Majority Text, use 𝔐. These characters are not in Times New Roman, so Cambria Math is the preferred font for them. An abbreviation for the Alexandrian text itself is the Coptic letter Ⲉ. This symbol should be written in Coptic with the Antinoou font. Only use Times New Roman in your paper unless there are characters or languages that require special fonts. If you use a special font, please inform the editor in the email when you submit your paper. To denote that the Majority Text is divided, use M^pt. Some manuscripts are known by a long name and an abbreviation; if you want to use the abbreviation, please use both the full nomenclature and the abbreviation at first mention before switching to single letter. Here are some key Alexandrian manuscripts with their abbreviations:

א          Codex Sinaiticus
B         Codex Vaticanus
A         Codex Alexandrinus
C         Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus
Q         Codex Guelferbytanus B
T          Codex Borgianus
I           Codex Freerianus
Z          Codex Dublinensis
L          Codex Regius
W        Codex Washingtonianus

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Abrahamic Covenant Age

ad (Latin abbreviation for “in the year of our Lord”) goes before the date (ad 2014)

Apostolic Age

Bronze Age

church age

Iron Age

Stone Age

Almighty God

amillennial, amillenarian, amillennialist

Ancient Near East the

Antichrist anti-Christian

antichrists (many)

the Apocrypha (but: apocryphal)

apostle(s) (but: the Twelve Apostles, the Twelve)

apostolic

archaeology

ark (any reference)

Ascension (specific biblical event)

Atonement (of Christ)

bc (English abbreviation for “before Christ”) goes after the date (586 bc)

Beatitudes

believer-priests

bema judgment

Bible

biblical

Black theology (an adjective is capitalized if used of people group: Brown soteriology, White America, etc. a color is lowercase if about something else: black skin, red flag, etc. Same with Queer theology or Trans rights as opposed to trans fats)

body of Christ

Book of books (Bible)

book of Job

a book of the Bible

book of life (mentioned in Rev. 20:15)

Bread of Life

bride of Christ

Calvary

Captivity (the Babylonian; nonspecific, lowercase)

Catholics

Catholicism (but: catholic, meaning universal)

chapter (general term) Chapter 6 (specific chapter)

charismatic

chief priest(s)

children of Israel

Christ Child

Christian education (but: Department of Christian Education)

Christlike

Christological

Christology

Christ’s kingdom

church (both universal and local)

the early church fathers (but: the Fathers)

the commandments (capitalize only when referring to the whole Decalogue: Ten Commandments, but: first commandment)

commencement

communion (the ordinance)

communists, communism (when referring to the political system)

covenant (but: Old Covenant and New Covenant)

Creation (the original)

the Creator

Critical Text

the Cross (figurative sense of Christ’s sacrifice and redemption)

cross (the wooden object)

the Crucifixion (when referring to Calvary in its total significance)

curriculum (plural: curricula, not: curriculums)

Davidic Covenant

Day of Atonement

Day of Pentecost Day

of the Lord

the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS)

Decalogue

Department of Historical Theology (but: the Historical Theology department)

deity pronouns (He/Him/His in reference to God the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit)

devil

disciple(s) (but: the Twelve)

dispensationalism, dispensationalist

Easter Day

Epistle (when used in connection with the biblical letters, as “the Epistle to the Galatians,” “the Epistles,” “the Epistles of Paul,” “the Pauline Epistles,” “the Pastoral Epistles”; but Paul’s epistles)

eternal God

Eucharist

evangelicalism, evangelical

Exile (biblical event)

Exodus (biblical event)

Fall (of man, biblical event)

fall season

Father

the Father (God)

the Fathers (meaning the church fathers)

Feast of Tabernacles

Flood (biblical event—but: the flood of Noah’s day)

free grace, free grace theology

fundamentalism, fundamentalist

Garden of Eden

Garden of Gethsemane

Gentile

gnostic (when used as an adjective)

Gnostic(s), Gnosticism

Godhead

godless

godly

God-Man

gods (plural)

God’s Word

Golden Rule

the Good Shepherd

gospel (when referring to the evangelical message)

Gospel (one of the first four New Testament books)

Gospels (two or more of the first four New Testament books)

Great Commission

great white throne judgment

handbook

hell

high priest (but: High Priest when referring to Jesus)

Holy Land

holy of holies, holy place, most holy place (in the tabernacle and temple)

Holy One (God)

Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit

the Incarnation

the intertestamental period, intertestamental literature, etc.

Jehovah

judgment seat of Christ

the just

for the unjust

King of kings

the kingdom

kingdom of Christ (likewise: Messianic kingdom)

kingdom of God

kingdom of heaven

Lamb of God

Last Supper

Law (Pentateuch or the Ten Commandments; lowercase for any other reason)

Law of Moses

liberation theology

Living Water (Jesus)

“living water” (salvation)

the Lord (but: if a direct translation from the Hebrew name, Lord)

Lord of lords

Lord’s Day (Sunday)

Lord’s Prayer (specific prayer taught by Jesus)

Lord’s Supper

Lord’s Table

lordship, lordship salvation

Majority Text

Markan priority

marriage supper of the Lamb

Masoretic Text (when used as a singular proper noun)

the Master (Jesus)

Mediator (Christ)

mercy seat

Messiah

messiahship

messianic

midrash (as a body of rabbinic literature; specific works within the collection would be capitalized and italicized such as Genesis Rabbah) midrashim (plural) midrashic (adjective)

millenarian

millenarianism (likewise, premillennialism, amillennialism, postmillennialism)

millennial

millennium

Mosaic Covenant

Mosaic Law

Most High (name of God)

most holy place

New Covenant

New Jerusalem

New Testament

Nicene fathers

Noah’s ark

non-Christian

Northern Kingdom (Israel)

Old Covenant

Old Testament

parable of the prodigal son (and other parables)

Passover feast (Feast of the Passover)

the person and work of Christ

the personhood of Christ

Person (if referencing one of the Trinity) e.g. The third Person of the Trinity

postmillennial, postmillenarian, postmillennialist

premillennial, premillenarian, premillennialist

Prince of Peace

Promised Land

prophet (the prophet Amos)

the Prophets (Hebrew division of the Old Testament)

Protestant

Protestantism

proto-Mark, proto-Luke, proto-Matthew

Psalm (specific song or chapter in the Psalms: Psalm 1, but: this psalm)

psalmist (psalmist David)

the psalms (general reference)

Psalms (the biblical book)

rabbi

rabbinical (but: Rabbinical Judaism)

rapture

the Redeemer

the Reformation

registration

the Resurrection (Jesus’; otherwise lowercase)

Righteous One

River Jordan

Sabbath Day

Sadducees

Sanhedrin

Satan

satanic

satanism

Savior

scribes

scriptural

Scripture (when referencing the Bible, otherwise scripture)

the Second Advent

the Second Coming (biblical event; but: Christ’s second coming)

the Second Temple period

Septuagint

Sermon on the Mount

Shekinah

Sin-bearer (Christ)

Son of Man

sonship

Southern Kingdom (Judah)

the Spirit of God

the Spirit of Truth

spring season (summer, fall, winter, spring)

Stoic(s) (member of the philosophy begun by Zeno)

stoic (an attitude)

suffering

Servant (Christ)

Sunday school

Synoptics

Synoptic Gospels

systematic theology (unless used as a proper noun such as for a course, Systematic Theology)

tabernacle

Talmud

temple

the Ten Commandments (but: the first commandment)

the two-source (or document) hypothesis (or theory)

theology

theological

third world

throne of grace

Thy holy name

Transfiguration (any biblical event)

Tribulation

the Tribulation

the Great Tribulation

trinitarian

Trinity

Triumphal Entry

triune

TV (not T.V.)

the Twelve (referring to the apostles)

unbiblical

unchristian (but: un-Christlike, non-Christian)

Upper Room

White (Caucasian person but: lowercase for color as in white robes)

wise men (biblical)

woke

Wonderful One (title of God)

the Word (Bible or Christ)