[B-Greek] GreekStudy Psalms Reading Group
Louis Sorenson
llsorenson at hotmail.com
Sun Apr 12 23:24:21 EDT 2009
Hello all,
χαιρειν παντες,
This email is part of an announcement sent to the GreekStudy email list reading
a new group reading the most favorite Psalms. The reading group is starting May 3, 2009. Anyone is welcome to join the group. The reading group is a reading/translation group; but a deeper participation is encouraged.
The schedule for the Psalms GreekStudy group is as follows:
01 May 3 Psalm 1 (LXX 1)Blessed is the man
02 May 10 Psalm 8 (LXX 8) Lord, our Lord, How majestic is your name in all the earth (Wisdom)
03 May 17 Psalm 19 (LXX 18) The heavens declare the glory of God (Nature)
04 May 24 Psalm 22 (LXX 21) My God, My God, why have you forsaken me (Messianic)
05 May 31 Psalm 23 (LXX 22) The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want (Refuge)
06 June 3 Psalm 24 (LXX 23) The earth is the Lord's and its fullness (Praise)
07 June 10 Psalm 27 (LXX 26) The Lord is my light and deliverer, whom shall I fear?
08 June 17 Psalm 32 (LXX 31) How blessed is the man whose sins are forgiven (Penitential)
09 June 24 Psalm 34 (LXX 33) I will bless the Lord at all times (praise)
10 June 31 Psalm 51 (LXX 50) Be gracious to me O God, according to thy loving kindness (penitential)
The reading
group
is a very simple group and will be reading only 10 of the Psalms. Although it
is just a reading/translation group, the resource page gives links to
many links to help us read and understand the Greek. There is even
audio (Psalm 1 at the moment) in Restored Koine. I encourage all to
read through Conybeare and Stock's Grammar of the Septuagint; it will
help point out where the Greek of the LXX is different from Attic or
the New Testament. It can be found at CCEL.org at
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/conybeare/lxxgrammar.i.html
Schedule:
The group will start first week in May. Translations are due Sundays
at 8:00 a.m GMT. If anyone is interested, let me know.
I will use the normal collation software used in the GreekStudy
group. The GreekStudy Psalms group page will be created in the next
few days.
The Greek Psalms are
"translation Greek". There are many Hebraisms and sentence structures,
word choices, etc. which do not match one-to-one Hebrew to Greek - the
Greek translators had to make choices. Sometimes they chose Hebrew
idioms over the normal Greek expressions. So reading the LXX Psalms is
a little different than reading a (non-Hebrew) secular Greek text. I
have scanned and uploaded the book "The Psalter of the Church" by
Mozely. It contains the parallels between the Greek text and the
Hebrew. It can be found online at either
http://www.letsreadgreek.com/psalms/resources/mozley_thepsalterofthechurch.pdf
or on the Internet Archive. The book uses Hebrew characters and may be
a little confusing to those who have not mastered the Hebrew alphabet.
This may be a good opportunity for those who do not know the Hebrew
alphabet to learn it.
I plan on creating a resource page for each Psalm. You can take a preview of
the pages for the first two Psalms; (the pages are still changing as I
get the format set - if some links don't work for the moment, check them a day or two later).
http://www.letsreadgreek.com/psalms/psalm001/psalm001.htm (Psalm 1)
http://www.letsreadgreek.com/psalms/psalm008/psalm008.htm (Psalm 8)
(soon to be created)
http://www.letsreadgreek.com/psalms/default.htm (Psalms home page)
http://www.letsreadgreek.com/psalms/greekstudygroup.htm (Schedule and group information)
The
text the group will be reading is Rahlfs text. (Rahlfs' text of the Psalms is
almost identical to the
text of the most modern critical Gottingen Septuagint text
(http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ioscs/editions.html). The text can be found on the German Bible Society website at
http://www.bibelwissenschaft.de/online-bibeln/septuaginta-lxx/lesen-im-bibeltext/bibelstelle/ps/cache/723d9d1bfc/
If
anyone is interested participating in the reading/translation group,
drop a note to louis at letsreadgreek.com, an alternate email is
llsorenson at hotmail.com. About 19 different Psalms were listed in the
original email proposal for the group; only about 10 Psalms will be
included in this short reading group. The remaining Psalms will be
saved for a subsequent group.
Those
who wish to participate do not need to read all of each Psalm - nor do
all need to send in a translation. It would be great to start some
rabid email trails with questions about the Greek or Hebrew.
Ερρωσο,
Louis Sorenson [Psalms GreekStudy Coordinator]
P.S.
There are many Psalms which have modern worship songs based on them. I
hope to translate at least one song for each of the Psalms we are
reading (if available). The modern songs in Koine can be found at
http://www.letsreadgreek.com/songs/default.htm .
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