First Kings: A Greek Septuagint Reader

Book 4 in Septuagint Readers

This is a Greek Septuagint reader for First Kings. It is designed as a useful cost-efficient tool for two groups of people. First, for students learning Koine Greek after a year’s worth of study this book and its series provide the material to grow in reading ability from primary texts. Second, this book is designed for those studying or curious about the Septuagint.

The book immerses the reader in the Septuagint text in order to build confidence reading it as quickly as possible. To achieve this, all uncommon words that occur 50 times or fewer in the Septuagint are glossed as footnotes. This enables the reader to continue reading every passage unhindered. Therefore, the book complements traditional language grammars and is especially ideal for beginner and intermediate students learning to read Koine Greek. However, even advanced readers will appreciate the glossing of the rare words, since it saves time reading the text.

Other features include:

• Parallel aligned Greek and Hebrew books to read together
• Glossary of all the words not glossed below the text
• Wide margins
• Biblical maps in Greek

The Greek base text is Codex Vaticanus.