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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.

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Hellenistic and Biblical Greek

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 the language. The seventy passages in this reader reflect different styles, genres, provenances, and purposes and are arranged into eight parts according to their level of difficulty. Grammatical support and vocabulary lists accompany each passage, and a cumulative glossary offers further assistance with translation. Students are led to a deeper understanding of Hellenistic Greek and a greater facility with the language.

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.
Offers a glimpse into the everyday life of Hellenistic Greeks, with themes such as sexuality, slavery, magic, apocalypticism, and Hellenistic philosophy.

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 BCE337 CE) (2002), and Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the Konya Archaeological Museum (2002). Using a variety of textbooks, he has taught introductory New Testament Greek for more than twenty years in four institutions and serves as the Greek examiner for biblical doctoral candidates at the Toronto School of Theology.

Hellenistic and Biblical Greek

A Graduated Reader

B. H. McLean

Knox College, University of Toronto

32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013-2473, USA

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B. H. McLean 2014

This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.

First published 2014

Printed in the United States of America

A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data

McLean, Bradley H. (Bradley Hudson), 1957

Hellenistic and biblical Greek : a graduated reader / B. H. McLean.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-107-02558-5 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-107-68628-1 (paperback)

1. Greek language, Hellenistic (300 B.C.600 A.D.) Readers. 2. Greek language, Hellenistic

(300 B.C.600 A.D.) Grammar. 3. Greek language, Biblical Readers. 4. Greek language,

Biblical Grammar. 5. Bible. New Testament Language, style Problems, exercises, etc. I. Title.

PA617.M34 2014

487.4dc23 2014002029

ISBN 978-1-107-02558-5 Hardback

ISBN 978-1-107-68628-1 Paperback

Additional resources for this publication at www.cambridge.org/Greekreader

Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet Web sites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such Web sites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.

Contents

Online Materials

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

List of Illustrations

Guide to Abbreviations and Grammar

I. Editorial Abbreviations

verbal root

alternative/variant/dialectical form of

abbrev.

abbreviation

acc.

accusative case

act.

active voice

adj.

adjective/adjectival

adv.

adverb/adverbial

Aeol.

Aeolic dialect

1aor.

first aorist

2aor.

second aorist

apoc.

apocopated

approx.

approximately

art. inf.

articular infinitive

assim.

assimilation

Att.

Attic dialect

attr. rel.

attraction of the relative pronoun (to the case of its antecedent)

1st attrib. pos.

modifier in first attributive position

2nd attrib. pos.

modifier in second attributive position

3rd attrib. pos.

modifier in third attributive position

BCE

before the Christian era = before Christ (BC)

btw.

between

ca.

circa (Lat.), about

Christian era = Anno Domini (AD)

cf.

confer (Lat.), compare

cogn. acc.

cognate accusative (i.e., same root word as the verb governing it)

col.

column

conat. impf.

conative imperfect (expressing an action attempted in the past)

cond.

conditional

conj.

conjunction

contr.

contracted / contraction

cust. impf.

customary imperfect (expressing habitual action)

dat.

dative case

So-and-so

dep.

deponent

dim.

diminutive

disc. syn.

discontinuous syntax

Dor.

Doric dialect

ed.pr.

edition princeps (Lat.), the first editor of a text

e.g.

exempli gratia (Lat.), for example

emph. fut. neg.

emphatic future negation

encl.

enclitic

Ep.

Epic dialect

epex. gen.

epexegetic/explanatory genitive

epith.

Epithet

esp.

especially

euphem.

Euphemism

fig.

figurative/figuratively

fm.

feminine gender

fr.

from

freq.

frequently

fut.

future tense

gen.

genitive case

gen. absol.

genitive absolute

gen. comp.

genitive of comparison

Heb.

Hebrew

HGr

Hellenistic Greek

hist. pres.

historic present

hort. subj.

hortatory subjunctive

i.e.

id est (Lat.), that is

impers.

impersonal

impf.

imperfect tense

impv.

imperative

incept. impf.

inceptive imperfect (expressing the beginning of a past action)

ind.

indicative mood

indecl.

indeclinable

inf.

infinitive

instr.

instrumental

intens.

intensive

interrog.

interrogative

intrans.

intransitive (refers to verb not taking a direct object)

Ion.

Ionic dialect

irreg.

irregular (heteroclite)

iter. impf.

iterative imperfect

...

= et cetera (Lat.)

l. / ll.

line(s)

Lat.

Latin

lit.

literally

loanw.

loanword

LXX

Septuagint

masculine gender

mid.

middle voice

mod.

modern-day

ms./mss.

manuscript(s)

Masoretic text (of the Tanakh)

naut.

Nautical

n.b.

nota bene (Lat.), note well

neg.

negative

neol.

neologism

nom.

nominative case

nt.

neuter gender

Northwest group of dialects

obj.

object

obj. gen.

objective genitive

obsol.

Obsolete

Old Greek version

opt.

optative mood

pass.

passive voice

passim

very frequently attested

periph.

periphrastic construction

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