A Grammar of the Old Testament in Greek: According to the Septuagint: Introduction, Orthography, and Accidence Volume 1

Thackeray's treatment of the Septuagint's grammar is a masterful reference work, which moved Septuagintal study forward. "Why write a Grammar of a translation, in parts a servile translation, into a Greek which is far removed from the Attic standard, of an original which was often imperfectly understood? A sufficient answer might be that the work forms part of a larger whole, the Grammar of Hellenistic Greek, the claims of which, as bridging the gulf between the ancient and the modern tongue upon the attention of philhellenes and philologists have in recent years begun to receive their due recognition from a growing company of scholars. The Septuagint, in view both of the period which it covers and the variety of its styles, ranging from the non-literary vernacular to the artificial Atticistic, affords the most promising ground for the investigation of the peculiarities of the Hellenistic or 'common' language . . . Though of less paramount importance than the New Testament, the fact that it was the only form in which the older Scriptures were known to many generations of Jews and Christians and the deep influence which it exercised upon New Testament and Patristic writers justify a separate treatment of its language. Again, the fact that it is in the main translation gives it a special character and raises the difficult question of the extent of Semitic influence upon the written and spoken Greek of a bilingual people." -from the Preface Contents I. Introduction II. Orthography and Phonetics III. Accidence Title Page......Page 3 Preface......Page 6 Contents......Page 12 Principal Authorities Quoted with Abbreviations......Page 14 Collections of Papyri Referred to in this Volume......Page 17 Corrigenda and Addenda......Page 19 § 1. Grammar and Textual Criticism......Page 20 § 2. Grouping of LXX Books......Page 25 § 3. The koinē -- the Basis of Septuagint Greek......Page 35 § 4. The Semitic Element in LXX Greek......Page 44 § 5. The Papyri and the Uncial MSS of the LXX......Page 74 § 6. The Vowels......Page 90 § 7. The Consonants......Page 119 § 8. The Aspirate......Page 143 § 9. Euphony in Combination of Words and Syllables......Page 148 § 10. Declensions of Nouns......Page 159 § 11. Proper Names......Page 179 § 12. Adjectives......Page 191 § 13. The Numerals......Page 205 §14. Pronouns......Page 209 § 15. The Verb. General Changes in Conjugation......Page 212 § 16. Augmentation and Reduplication......Page 214 § 17. Verbs in -Ō. Terminations......Page 228 § 18. Verbs in -Ō. Tense Formation......Page 237 § 19. Verbs in -Ō. Present Tense......Page 243 § 20. Verbs in -Ō. Future Tense......Page 247 § 21. Verbs in -Ō. First and Second Aorist (and Future Passive)......Page 252 § 22. Contract Verbs......Page 260 § 23. Verbs in -MI......Page 263 § 24. Table of Noteworthy Verbs......Page 277 I. INDEX OF SUBJECTS......Page 310 II. INDEX OF GREEK WORDS AND FORMS......Page 319 III. INDEX OF BIBLICAL QUOTATIONS......Page 329