Hellenistic and Biblical Greek: A Graduated Reader

B. H. McLean

Cambridge University Press, Jul 21, 2014 - Foreign Language Study - 509 pages

This Hellenistic Greek reader is designed for students who have completed one or more years of Greek and wish to improve their reading ability and gain a better appreciation for the diversity of Hellenistic Greek. This goal can only be accomplished by working through a selection of Greek texts that reflect different styles, genres, provenances, and purposes. The seventy passages in this reader have been arranged into eight parts on the basis of their level of difficulty. Each passage is accompanied by grammatical support and vocabulary lists, as well as other aids to translation, including a cumulative glossary. The grammatical information is contained in the footnotes. The vocabulary lists are conveniently arranged below the Greek texts to which they refer. • Includes canonical and non-canonical Christian texts, Septuagint (prose and poetry), Jewish Pseudepigrapha, inscriptions, and Jewish and Hellenistic literary Greek. • Includes a Web component with more than thirty additional readings for classroom and independent use. • Passages offer a glimpse into the everyday life of Hellenistic Greeks, with themes such as sexuality, slavery, magic, apocalypticism, and Hellenistic philosophy.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• 4: 4
• Early Christian Texts: 13
• The Isometric Translational Greek of the Septuagint: 69
• 2734 MT 312734: 79
• Jewish Recensional Greek: 95
• 1028: 106
• IntermediateLevel Hellenistic Greek: 141
• PMich VIII 491: 149
• 1731: 168
• 621: 180
• 111: 221
• Jewish Literary Greek: 261
• Inscriptions: 301
• Lunar God IG II2 1366: 309
• Aphrodite Piraeus IG II2 337: 313
• 53: 329
• Arrives on the Island of Delos IG XI4 1299: 335
• 73: 348
• in Delphi GDI II2 2171 2170: 359
• A15 8 B12 C21: 366
• IMagnMai 215: 375
• Christian Epigram SEG 30 1479: 381
• Philostr VA 4 1718 135: 387
• 102: 403
• 105: 411
• CONTENTS: 424
• Summary of Verbal Paradigms: 425
• Athernatic Verbs: 434
• Glossary: 447
• 107: 463

About the author

B. H. McLean is Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Knox College, University of Toronto. He is the author of Biblical Interpretation and Philosophical Hermeneutics (Cambridge University Press, 2012), New Testament Greek: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2011), An Introduction to the Study of Greek Epigraphy of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods from Alexander the Great down to the Reign of Constantine (323 BCE-337 CE) (2002) and Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the Konya Archaeological Museum (2002). He has taught introductory New Testament Greek for more than twenty years in four institutions, using a variety of textbooks, and serves as the Greek examiner for biblical doctoral candidates at the Toronto School of Theology.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Hellenistic and Biblical Greek: A Graduated Reader
• Author: B. H. McLean
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014
• ISBN: 1107025583, 9781107025585
• Length: 509 pages
• Subjects: Foreign Language Study / Ancient Languages; History / Ancient / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Religion / Biblical Studies / General