A complete parsing guide that includes all word forms found in the Septuagint.
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The Septuagint--the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible--was an influential translation for Jews and Christians of the first century. When the New Testament writers quoted the Old Testament, they most often used the Septuagint (abbreviated LXX) translation. Thus the vocabulary and thought forms of the LXX had a significant impact on the development of New Testament theology. Although the LXX and the New Testament were both written in Koiné Greek, much of their vocabulary and word forms are different. Thus students and scholars who desire to read the LXX need a reliable reference guide that will help them decode the host of word forms and meanings that go beyond New Testament Greek.
The Analytical Lexicon to the Septuagint lists alphabetically every Greek word form found in the standard Rahlfs LXX text, along with a detailed parsing of each form. Besides correcting errors found in the previous (1994) edition, this expanded edition also includes basic glosses (definitions) for each Greek word from Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint, compiled by Johan Lust, Erik Eynikel, and Katrin Hauspie. These glosses are translation equivalents rather than technical definitions, and provide literal meanings as well as metaphorical ones. In many cases, the glosses are accompanied by grammatical and contextual information that sheds additional light on the word's meaning. The combination of the exhaustive grammatical analysis of the Analytical Lexicon and the helpful glosses of the Greek-English Lexicon make this expanded edition an indispensible tool for everyone engaged in the study of the Septuagint. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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Concise, accurate, readable - extremely useful!,
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Returning to reading the Septuagint after about 30 years, my Greek is really rusty. Liddell & Scott is hard to use, Bauer incomplete vis-a-vis LXX. This new Analytical Lexicon to the Septuagint is the perfect reference - concise, accurate and readable. I have found it extremely useful. And thanks to the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, what a bargain!
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Desperately needed for Scholar and layman alike to be able to read the LXX,
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When I received the ANALYTICAL LEXICON TO THE SEPTUAGINT I was skeptical in its accuracy and utility. After I started to use it boy was I wrong! In every place I had a problem with the Greek word or words (And there were many), this Lexicon did the job of giving me a word's definition that readily helped me understand the verse or text I was reading from the LXX. For those of us that just want to stick with the original biblical languages (and for Orthodox Christians that the LXX), and don't want an English translations of the LXX, this lexicon does the job, and does it quite well. I was very impressed with it and highly recommend it to my fellow Septuagint lovers out there.
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I am not an expert in Greek but I try to get more out of scripture than just looking at a translation. I own a few Greek and Hebrew lexicons but this is the first one I have seen like this. It is helpful to me to see it laid out to where you can easily look over all the various forms, and this is the only way I have seen it done like that. Something I was wishing existed but was not sure if it did. Now I know, since I got this in the mail.
I am still probably going to get another Septuagint lexicon, where it goes more into the definitions.
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