Analytical Lexicon to the Septuagint: Expanded Edition - Hardcover

A.Taylor, Bernard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1565635167 ISBN 13: 9781565635166

Publisher: Hendrickson Academic, 2009

Synopsis

Bernard Taylor’s Analytical Lexicon of the Septuagint is an indispensable tool for students of the Septuagint. Taylor’s lexicon includes every Greek word found in the Rahlfs LXX text (the scholarly standard) in fully parsed form. This expanded edition also features complete definitions for each Greek word taken from Lust, Eynikel, and Hauspie’s A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint, the standard LXX reference lexicon.

This Lexicon is perfect for quick referencing obscure words and their meaning, and although exhaustive, it is also a portable resource that is excellent for courses that emphasize large amounts of translation.

About this title

About the Author

Septuagint expert Bernard Taylor is the Scholar in Residence at Loma Linda University Church, California. Dr. Taylor earned his PhD from Hebrew Union College, where he was the first non-Jew to teach biblical Hebrew to rabbinic students. He is the author of The Lucianic Manuscripts of I Reigns, Volumes 1 and 2 and the editor of the Bulletin of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies.

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hendrickson Academic
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565635167
• ISBN 13: 9781565635166
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 622