Discovering the Septuagint: A Guided Reader

Name: Discovering the Septuagint: A Guided Reader
Brand: Kregel Publications
SKU: 443428
Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Author: Karen H. Jobes
ISBN: 9780825443428

By: Karen H. Jobes

Kregel Publications / 2015 / Hardcover

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Interest in the Septuagint today continues to grow stronger. Despite that interest, students have lacked a guidebook to the text similar to the readers and handbooks that exist for the Greek New Testament. Discovering the Septuagint: A Guided Reader fills that need. Created by an expert on the Septuagint, this groundbreaking resource draws on Jobes's experience as an educator in order to help upper-level college, seminary, and graduate students cultivate skill in reading the Greek Old Testament.

This reader presents, in Septuagint canonical order, ten Greek texts from the Rahlfs-Hanhart Septuaginta critical edition. It explains the syntax, grammar, and vocabulary of more than 700 verses from select Old Testament texts representing a variety of genres, including the Psalms, the Prophets, and more.

The texts selected for this volume were chosen to fit into a typical semester. Each text (1) is an example of distinctive Septuagint syntax or word usage; (2) exemplifies the amplification of certain theological themes or motifs by the Septuagint translators within their Jewish Hellenistic culture; and/or (3) is used significantly by New Testament writers.

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Title: Discovering the Septuagint: A Guided Reader
By: Various Contributors
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 352
Vendor: Kregel Publications

Publication Date: 2015
Weight: 1 pound 12 ounces
ISBN: 0825443423
ISBN-13: 9780825443428
Stock No: WW443428

Publisher's Description

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Quick access to Septuagint vocabulary and syntax for students with two years of biblical Greek

Interest in the Septuagint today continues to grow stronger. Despite that interest, students have lacked a guidebook to the text similar to the readers and handbooks that exist for the Greek New Testament. Discovering the Septuagint: A Guided Reader fills that need. Created by an expert on the Septuagint, this groundbreaking resource draws on Jobes's experience as an educator in order to help upper—level college, seminary, and graduate students cultivate skill in reading the Greek Old Testament.

This reader presents, in Septuagint canonical order, ten Greek texts from the Rahlfs—Hanhart Septuaginta critical edition. It explains the syntax, grammar, and vocabulary of more than 700 verses from select Old Testament texts representing a variety of genres, including the Psalms, the Prophets, and more.

Author Bio

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Karen H. Jobes (PhD, Westminster Theological Seminary) is the Gerald F. Hawthorne Professor Emerita of New Testament Greek and Exegesis at Wheaton College and Graduate School. She is the author of several books and commentaries including Discovering the Septuagint and the award-winning 1, 2, and 3 John in Zondervan's Exegetical Commentary Series.

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"We will always have a need for a grammatical/syntactical companion to the Greek New Testament. Past generations have been served well by Zerwick and then Rogers and Rogers. Now I commend Irons to a new generation of students who want to understand not only the individual Greek words but how those words work together to make meaning." -- William Varner, The Master's College