1. Analytical Lexicon to the Septuagint, Expanded Edition
    Bernard Taylor
    Hendrickson Publishers / Hardcover
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  1. Abram KJ
    Age: 25-34
    Gender: male
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    All you need is your Septuagint and this
    July 11, 2012
    Abram KJ
    Age: 25-34
    Gender: male
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
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    How can one make her or his way through the Septuagint in Greek in a way that is not entirely frustrating, especially if one comes to the Septuagint with just New Testament Greek as a background? And what if someone wants to read through the Septuagint without having to have multiple resources at hand? One thing I value is not having to use four or five additional reference works to understand the first reference work.

    Enter Bernard A. Taylor's Analytical Lexicon to the Septuagint: Expanded Edition.

    Taylor lists every single word found in Rahlfs Septuagint, the standard LXX text, as it appears (inflected) in the text. Each word then has full parsing information and the basic word meaning taken from Lust, Eynikel, and Hauspie's Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint [GELS].

    This means that the user of this expanded edition (ALS, hereafter) does not need an additional lexicon at hand to get basic word meanings. To be sure, Taylor notes: "The abridged GELS entries in this volume include only the basic word definitions, not the contextual meanings found in the subsequent paragraphs of many of that work's entries. The word definitions included are glosses, or translation equivalents, rather than [full] descriptions of each word's meaning."

    If you're looking to read the Septuagint and do word studies, you'll need an additional resource. But if you need only the basic meaning (what most people want who are reading straight through), Taylor's lexicon covers all your needs. (And he certainly doesn't claim that the glosses in his ALS are anything more than that, glosses.) You get full parsing information, which then refers you to the lexical form of the word, which then has the basic word meaning from GELS. Especially helpful is the inclusion of proper nouns, so that there is really no word in the LXX that is left untouched by this lexicon.

    ALS is intuitive, well-laid out, and easy to use. The Greek font is clear and big enough to read easily. The lexical forms of words (i.e., where the basic word definitions are) are in bold for easy reference. The book is not very heavy (two pounds), so it travels well. More than 20 pages of introductory material clearly and concisely explain the features of the lexicon, abbreviations, suggestions for use, and overview notes on various parts of speech, transliterations, and so on. The introductory materials are instructive and easy to read, yet ALS presents its information so well that its user can easily put it to work right away.

    It's tempting to debate the merits of a work like this in print, when all that Taylor offers (and more) can be had in electronic Bible programs like BibleWorks. However, to do that would not be to review this lexicon in its own right. Of course an electronic database (that can parse and provide lexical meanings of words) is faster to use, but a print copy is easier on the eyes, you don't have to wait for it to boot up, etc. That's all beside the point, though. The important thing about Taylor's expanded edition is that it has morphological and lexical analysis, so it functions as an all-in-one supplement to guide the reader through the Greek of the Septuagint.

    Analytical Lexicon to the Septuagint: Expanded Edition is now on my bookshelf right next to my Rahlfs Septuagint. It's hard to imagine a more useful Septuagint resource than Taylor's.

    (I thank Hendrickson for the review copy of this book, which was provided to me free of charge in exchange for an unbiased review.)
  2. David
    Florida
    Age: 45-54
    Gender: Male
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Excellent resource
    December 1, 2014
    David
    Florida
    Age: 45-54
    Gender: Male
    Quality: 4
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    It contains the conjugation of every word in alphabetical order. It is an excellent tool to read and understand the Septuagint Greek as well as it is helpful for the New Testament also.
  3. Warren
    Williams Lake Canada
    Age: 55-65
    Gender: male
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    An Excellent Book
    July 25, 2011
    Warren
    Williams Lake Canada
    Age: 55-65
    Gender: male
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    I have already found it useful, though the first word I looked up was not in it. So basic Greek skills are a must have. The print is very readable and the meanings are concise and agree with the Lexicon by Lust, Eynikel, and Hauspie so if money is tight this will do fine; though the discussion in the Lexicon is much better. It is good to have other Lexicons nearby as always. It is has allowed me to parse words that I could not pick apart with just NT skills or using the perseus site which is below and I highly recommend perseus as well as thebook; it is an excellent book!

    http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=fhsi&la=greek.
  4. T.C.
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    Must-have Resource for LXX Readers
    February 21, 2020
    T.C.
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    Value: 5
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    With Hendrickson's release in late 2018 of the Reader's Septuagint, I began looking for resources to help me in my LXX reading and study. In addition to a good lexicon like Chamberlain's, Greek of the Septuagint: A Supplemental Lexicon, Bernard Taylor's Analytical Lexicon to the Septuagint is a tremendous resource.

    In short, this lexicon contains parsing and lexical information for every word in the LXX.

    More specifically, this lexicon contains lemmas (i.e. the form of the word as found in the LXX), lexical form, brief definitions, and morphological/parsing information for every word. Some words also contain brief explanatory information showing how a word may be used in context, a contextualized meaning, and/or syntactical information associated with particular meanings/usages (e.g., certain definition when followed by an infinitive or other form).

    While all of the information in this book is easily and maybe even more quickly available in electronic resources, those of us who still like studying in books will find this resource a tremendous asset. There is undeniably something to wresting with words and taking the time to look them up that burns them into our brains and facilitates learning in ways that all the electronic tools in the world cannot.

    For those who share this mindset and want to collect/use resources that will stand the test of time as only the printed word can, Taylor's work is an essential resource to add to your library. My thanks to Hendrickson for providing me a copy to review!
  5. Charlie
    Upper Marlboro, MD
    Age: Over 65
    Gender: male
    5 Stars Out Of 5
    For every serious Greek scholar
    July 10, 2012
    Charlie
    Upper Marlboro, MD
    Age: Over 65
    Gender: male
    Quality: 5
    Value: 5
    Meets Expectations: 5
    For me, Bernard Taylor's Analytical Lexicon of the Septuagint, Expanded Edition has proven to be an absolutely necessary tool with which the intended meanings of many obscure words in Scripture can be studied more fully. I heartily recommend this book for all serious Greek scholars.
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