This is a substantially expanded version of a lexicon published in 1993 dealing with the Twelve Prophets. This new edition fully incorporates the data relating to the Pentateuch, the centrepiece of the Septuagint. 4.500 lexemes (the vocabulary of the New Testament Greek has a little over 5.000 lexemes). incorporated. of these do not occur in the Pentateuch nor in the Twelve Prophets, but occur in books for which the Gottingen edition is available. of the 4.500+ headwords all the passages...
Biblical scholars will be the audience for this major reference, which provides a detailed lexicon of the Greek version of the Septuagint. The entries for each word provide morphology, usage, citation of the passages where it occurs, related terms, and the Hebrew original. References to other scholarly sources are provided in those cases where the current understanding of the word's use is attributable to that source. Lists of abbreviations and cited literature are included. As this is a dictionary, there is no index. Muraoka, a senior Biblical scholar beyond compare, teaches at Leiden U. in the Netherlands. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR