Overview
This graduated Hellenistic Greek reader is designed for students who have completed one or more years of Greek. The seventy passages, annotated with grammatical notes and vocabulary lists, lead students to a deeper understanding of the diversity of Hellenistic Greek, and develop their reading skills.
"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 the language. The seventy passages in this reader reflect different styles, genres, provenances, and purposes, and are arranged into eight parts according to their level of difficulty. Grammatical support and vocabulary lists accompany each passage, and a cumulative glossary offers further assistance with translation. Students are led to a deeper understanding of Hellenistic Greek, and a greater facility with the language. 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 slavery, magic, apocalypticism, and Hellenistic philosophy"--
- | Author: B. H. McLean
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Jul 21, 2014
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- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-13: 9781107025585
- | ISBN-10: 1107025583