Exhaustive Concordance for Septuagint

Maurice A. O'Sullivan mauros at iol.ie
Fri Sep 22 10:22:32 EDT 2000


At 10:34 22/09/00, Steven Shannon wrote:

>Does any one know where I might be able to obtain an exhuastive
>concordance for the septuagint?

The "daddy" of them all is:

A Concordance to the Septuagint : And the
     Other Greek Versions of the Old Testament
     (Including the Apocryphalbooks)
     by Edwin Hatch, Henry A. Redpath.
Hardcover  (April 1998)

This was originally published in 1897, and is now normally published in two 
farily hefty volumes.

It is currently on sale, new, at prices between $87 and the regular price 
of $125 I Amazon.com currently offering it at $100, so it's worth shopping 
around; MX Bookfinder will list both new and secondhand versions for you.

There is a much smaller, and older, one volume work, by G. Morrish: A Handy 
Concordance of the Septuagint ( London; Bagster 197) which you might be 
able to find in a secondhand shop.

Although it's not a concordance, a useful tool is:
Jacques, Xavier, ed. List of Septuagint Words Sharing Common Elements. 
Subsidia Blblica 1. Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute 1972.
[ a useful source might be: LIBRERIA ATHENAEUM athenaeum at iol.it ]

If you do decide to splash out on the Hatch & Redpath, I would recommend 
using with it:
Muraoka, Takamitsu. Hebrew/Aramaic Index to the Septuagint. Keyed to to the 
Hatch-Redpath Concordance. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1998.

It is currently being offered, I see,  on some web-sites at about half the 
original price of $25. It is a particularly useful tool and adjunct to the 
Concordance.

Regards
Maurice


Maurice A. O'Sullivan
[Bray, Ireland]

"Apply yourself wholly to the text; apply the text wholly to yourself."
- Johann Albrecht Bengel




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