The Septuagint: Pentateuch: A Reader of the Cambridge Septuagint

Book 1 in Septuagint Readers

This is a Greek Septuagint reader for the Septuagint Pentateuch. It is designed as a useful, cost-efficient tool for two groups of people. First, for students learning Post-Classical (Koine) Greek after a year’s worth of study this book and its series provide the material to grow in reading ability from primary texts. Second, this book is designed for those studying or curious about the Septuagint.

The book immerses the reader in the Septuagint text in order to build confidence reading it as quickly as possible. To achieve this, all uncommon words that occur 90 times or fewer in the Septuagint are glossed as footnotes. This enables the reader to continue reading every passage unhindered. Therefore, the book complements traditional language grammars and is especially ideal for beginner and intermediate students learning to read Koine Greek. However, even advanced readers will appreciate the glossing of rarer vocabulary, since it saves time reading the text.

Other features include:

• Paradigm charts of noun and verbs
• Glossary of all the words not glossed below the text
• Wide margins
• Biblical maps in Greek

The biblical base text is the Cambridge Septuagint, edited by H. B. Swete and based on Codex Vaticanus.