LXX (and other non-NT Koine Greek)

• The Alexamenos Graffito, scanned image of a sketch of this graffito with a brief description and bibliographical information.
• Reading notes for a number of LXX passages, some apostolic fathers, and the early Greek creeds (pdf files). These provide the full Greek text with translation, parsing, vocabulary, syntax notes. etc. for each. The notes are for one of my elective courses in which we read koine Greek outside the NT.

• 5/2/06, LXX Greek vocabulary list by frequency. One of the more frequent questions I've been asked over the past few years is, "Where can I find a vocabulary frequency list for the Septuagint?" I've not been able to point to any such list (BibleWorks is supposed to be able to generate such a list, but it crashes for me every time I try it), so eventually I got around to making a beginning attempt at offering such a tool. This one is by no means complete. It offers only the most frequent words from the LXX: all those which occur 100 or more times in the LXX--519 words, to be specific. My guess is that given the vocab size of the LXX, this may be roughly analogous to a first year Greek NT vocab list (which often gives words occurring 50+ times in the NT). Perhaps I will be able to extend it to include more words at a later time. I fully realize that some have hesitated to offer such a list until the Gottingen LXX is completed (and some folks are becoming cautiously optimistic that the Gottingen may actually be completed in our lifetime!), but so long as one realizes that this is a provisional list based on Rahlfs' text and the stats in Lust, Eynikel, and Hauspie's LXX lexicon, I think it will serve a useful, if limited, tool for those students who want to work on vocabulary beyond that of the NT for reading in the LXX. I also want to thank my wife for helping enter some of the LXX frequency data in my database.
  5/8/06, Thanks to a good suggestion from one of my former students, Rich Lucas, here's a subset list: all the words occurring in the LXX 100 or more times but less than 25 times in the NT--192 words.

• See also my LXX links page.

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