The Book of Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah: A Greek Septuagint Reader

Book 42 in Septuagint Readers

This is a Greek Septuagint reader for The Book of Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah. These books are set during exile, but written much later. Baruch covers confession of sins, wisdom, and deliverance, while the Letter sternly warns against idols. 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 90 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. In addition, unlike other readers, this book is small and light, so very easy to carry around and a pleasure to read.

Other features include:

• Parallel aligned Greek and English 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.