Hellenistic Greek Texts

in english and greek, 1950 second impression hardcover, has a few pages with pencil notations, mild wear from use, inquire for photos, --- An anthology of Greek texts by Allen Wikgren, gathering Jewish, Christian and pagan writing from the period between Alexander and Constantine. The selections draw on the Septuagint, Philo, Josephus, the New Testament, the Apostolic Fathers, other Hellenistic authors and the papyri. They offer reading practice in the everyday Greek of the era in which the New Testament was written. The texts are given in the original without translation or running commentary, and some passages are excerpted starting mid-sentence. A Greek vocabulary at the back of the volume covers the readings.