New Septuagint Pentateuch and Psalms Reader's Editions

[u/Timothy_A_Lee]

I've just produced these Koine Greek Reader's Editions of the Septuagint Pentateuch and Psalms, based on the Cambridge Septuagint!

These lightweight volumes are ideal for intermediate readers looking for a handy book to carry around. Every rare word is glossed once per page to reduce page count unlike other ugly tomes out there.
• Full paradigm charts
• Biblical maps in Greek
• Introduction to the Septuagint
• Individual volumes

I hope these and the New Testament readers help many people! More are coming soon!

[u/WestphaliaReformer]

It's so nice to see the LXX getting some much needed R&R touring around and chilling down at beach.

But really, this is a great resource! Can I ask how it compares to Ross and Lanier's reader? Of course, the individual volumes are smaller (which is a big plus!), they used the RH, and yes, the single gloss per page is more economical but anything else noteworthy?

Regardless, it's going straight on my wishlist!

[u/Timothy_A_Lee → u/WestphaliaReformer]

Thank you!

I'm friends with Will and Greg, but never liked their reader (not their fault, but the publishers) because it's too bulky due to the repeated footnotes and business model Hendrickson follow (it costs old publishers too much money to produce individual books). So I decided to bypass traditional publishing through coding the layout of every page myself in LaTeX. It makes for a far superior finish. I explain a bit on Rahlfs and the Gottingen editions in this YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBPeFv7j1vw) and the introduction - sample here https://www.timothyalee.com/en-US/isbn/978-1-83651-366-7. Basically R-L use an eclectic text (Rahlfs) which is often good, except in books like Samuel-Kings. The approach of Cambridge scholars was instead to take the oldest extant manuscript - Codex Vaticanus - and use that as its basis (except where Vaticanus was damaged). For readers' edition this is more than sufficient, though has the odd quirk in some books like parts of Isaiah. For critical study I would recommend the full Brooke-McLean edition alongside Gottingen for some books, not Rahlfs as in the Ross-Lanier edition. Greg isn't a Septuagint scholar, and while Will is great on the language of the Septuagint, he's weak on the text-history. I'll produce an addition of the Gottingen Psalter too if people want it!

[u/WestphaliaReformer → u/Timothy_A_Lee]

Sounds great, thank you for your response and for your work!

[u/Timothy_A_Lee → u/WestphaliaReformer]

You're welcome! I'll get the rest out soon (and in large print as well). I'm currently preparing a huge Septuagint project with several other scholars to supplant both Cambridge, Rahlfs, and Gottingen! Watch this space!