A First Septuagint Reader: Jonah and Ruth (Tapa Dura)

Libro 2 in Septuagint Readers

This is a Greek Septuagint reader for a First Septuagint Reader. The books selected for this reader contain some of the simplest passages of the Hebrew Bible, as such they are often among the first books to be read and studied by students. 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. In addition, unlike other readers, this book is small and light, so very easy to carry around and a pleasure to read.

Other features include:

• Parallel aligned Greek and Hebrew books to read together
• Paradigm charts of noun and verbs
• Glossary of all the words not glossed below the text
• Wide margins
• Biblical maps in Greek

The Greek base text is Codex Vaticanus.