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 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.