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The Analytical Lexicon to the Septuagint: A Complete Parsing Guide

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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!

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.

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.