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I still have another 10 or so to add. I will post in the next day or so

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Biblical And Ancient Greek Linguistics (2024)
A new edition with only one article so far - a register analysis of εγω ειμι
https://bagl.org/volume12

Sung Min Park - The Prestige Language of Christianity in the Book of Acts ebook published, hardback not yet
https://brill.com/display/title/72030?r ... &result=42
Researching ancient languages is notoriously difficult in sociolinguistics, due to the scarcity of data. This challenge is addressed by utilizing recent sociolinguistic theories and models to investigate the prestige languages used by early Christians in Acts. Drawing on historical documents, archaeology, and inscriptions, this study reconstructs the complex multilingual settings of the time. It reveals how Greek, despite the diverse linguistic landscape, became the dominant language in nearly all official contexts of early Christianity. This work breaks new ground in understanding early Christian communities and their linguistic practices, offering historical sociolinguistic approaches to the study of ancient languages and societies.

July 2025
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/fr ... 58CC875A63
Nuffelen et al. - The Fragmentary Greek Chronicles after Eusebius
This is the first systematic collection of the remains of the lost Greek chronicles from the period AD 350–650 and provides an edition and translation of and commentary on the fragments. Introducing neglected authors and proposing new interpretations, it reveals the diversity of the genre and revises traditional views about its development, nuancing in particular the role usually attributed to Eusebius of Caesarea. It shows how the writing of chronicles was deeply entangled in controversies about exegesis and liturgy, especially the dates of Christmas and Easter. Drawing from Latin, Armenian, Syriac and Arabic sources besides Greek ones, the book also studies how chronographic material travelled across linguistic and cultural boundaries. In this way, it sheds a profoundly new light on historiography in transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

Petruccione - The Correspondence of Theodoret of Cyrus volume 5
https://www.cuapress.org/9780813238869/ ... -of-cyrus/
Volumes 4 and 5 of the Library of Early Christianity, The Correspondence of Theodoret of Cyrus: The Collectio Sirmondiana, present a text and translation of the largest of three collections of Theodoret’s letters that have come down to us (first edited by the Jesuit father Jacques Sirmond, Paris 1642). Though pastor of the remote see of Cyrus in Syria, Theodoret was one of the major teachers of the eastern Christian church of the late fourth and early fifth century.
Petruccione - The Correspondence of Theodoret of Cyrus Volume 4
https://www.cuapress.org/9780813238845/ ... -of-cyrus/
These 147 letters place before us the myriad concerns, both spiritual and secular, of a late-antique bishop: Theodoret expounds theological and moral issues for fellow churchmen, begs imperial officials for tax relief for local landowners, provides for the sustenance and safety of refugees from the Vandal war in Africa, thanks a friend for a gift of wine. The edition of the Greek text is the work of John Petruccione. A textual introduction explains the relationships among the manuscripts, and the critical notes the choices made where the text is uncertain. The historical / theological introduction is the work of István Pásztori-Kupán, one of the foremost expositors of the thought of Theodoret and of his Antiochene predecessors and contemporaries. Two maps locate for the reader the place names mentioned in the letters, and three indices (a Scriptural Index, General Index, and Index of Modern Authors) complement the notes attached to the text and translation.

August 2025

Allen et al. - The Euthalian Tradition of the New Testament: A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts
https://brill.com/display/title/72500?r ... &result=10
The Euthalian tradition is a complex and pervasive set of late ancient prefaces, lists, divisions, and other paratexts transmitted alongside Acts, the Catholic Epistles, and Pauline Epistles, preserved (at least in part) in over 600 Greek manuscripts. This book catalogues the extent of the Euthalian tradition, introducing these features, pointing to their significance for research on the New Testament, and mapping their distribution in manuscripts produced from the sixth century onward. This catalogue is a tool for further research on the New Testament’s Greek manuscripts, reception history, and intellectual context.
September 2025

Chilton - Aramaic Jesus: Tradition, Identity, and Christianity's Mother Tongue
https://www.baylorpress.com/97814813222 ... aic-jesus/
Aramaic, one of the great international languages of antiquity, left an indelible mark on the New Testament. Jesus and his first followers knew it because for centuries Aramaic had been a primary means of communication in the Middle East, and it remained current long after their time. Usage of Aramaic within Jesus’ movement, initially with or without recourse to other languages, helped provide the fledgling community with a cultural as well as linguistic identity. Precise examples of the words of Jesus’ teaching in Aramaic, reinforced by portrayals of him among Aramaic speakers, are explicit in the Gospels. Whatever other language choices he may have made, the Greek Gospels portray him as employing Aramaic as his medium of teaching.

Bruce Chilton’s Aramaic Jesus is a groundbreaking study in pursuit of this "Aramaic Jesus," a pursuit that requires awareness of the kind of Aramaic in play. In the past, sorting out dialects and types of Aramaic relied on sources composed well after the time of the New Testament; this work factors in analysis of the Dead Sea Scrolls and related materials to access forms of Aramaic current during the first century CE. Since the depiction of Jesus in the Gospels involves various intersections with Aramaic, tracing the impact of Aramaic in the depiction of Jesus within the New Testament entails several investigative categories: specific cases in which Aramaic is identifiably transliterated within the Greek Gospels; analysis that accounts for the cultural settings of Aramaic through the technique of retroversion (involving translation back into Aramaic); and assessment of noticeable overlaps between the New Testament and contemporaneous Aramaic literature, where thematic emphases emerge that relate Jesus’ movement to Second Temple Judaism.

The writings we call the Gospels involved transitions from the au/orality of Jesus and his movement to reliance upon writing, and from their language(s) to written Koine Greek. Those shifts involved an increasing resort to narrative and literary conventions. The extent to which Aramaic is a factor within this process is uncharted, and this volume clarifies the issues that are in play. Chilton’s analysis illuminates the Aramaic Jesus and the people and processes that conveyed his memory.
Petit - Historical Syntax of the Indo-European Languages
https://brill.com/display/title/72529?r ... X&result=7
This book provides an introduction to the historical syntax of the Indo-European languages. It aims to provide an overview of the main issues concerning the comparison of syntactic structrures within the language family and the reconstruction of their common ancestor.


2026

Touwaide - Tome 6 Greek Medical Manuscripts - Diels’ Catalogue: Concordances, Indexes, Addenda
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document ... 99354/html
The medical literature of ancient Greece has been much studied during the 20th century, with a particular activity from the 1970s on. In spite of this intense activity, the search for Greek medical manuscripts still relies on the catalogues compiled in the early 20th century by a group of philologists led by the German historian of Greek philosophy and medicine Hermann Diels. However useful the so-called Diels has been and still is, it is now in need of a thorough revision. The present six-tome set is a first step in that direction. In tome 1 it offers a fac-simile reproduction of Diels’ catalogues with an index of all the manuscripts cited throughout the work. In the following three tomes, it provides a reconstruction of the text contained in the manuscripts listed in Diels on the basis of Diels’ catalogue. Proceeding as Diels did, these three tomes distinguish the manuscripts containing Hippocratic texts (2), Galenic texts (3) and all the other texts considered in Diels (4). Tome 5 sums up all the information about all texts in each manuscript and tome 6 offers a concordance of all citations of manuscripts in the 5 tomes, in addition to the index of the non-Greek manuscripts and addenda. The present work will be a reference for all scholars interested in Greek medical literature and manuscripts, as well as for any historian of medicine, medical book, medical tradition and medical culture.
Montanari and Montana - Supplementum Hellenisticum Novum: Volume I: Auctores
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document ... 72568/html
About 25 years have passed since the publication of the Supplementum Hellenisticum by Hugh Lloyd-Jones and Peter J. Parsons (1983) and the Supplementum Supplementi Hellenistici by the same Hugh Lloyd-Jones (2005). Yet, in a relatively short time, the discovery and publication of new papyri and the intense advancement of research and scholarly debate have significantly expanded and improved our textual knowledge on Hellenistic Greek poetry. The quantity and value of these novelties are such to recommend not to prepare a new Supplement of the Supplement(s), but to conduct a comprehensive critical review and an analytical updating of the two previous works, also to include authors and texts previously discarded because they were already included in other corpora such as the Collectanea Alexandrina by J.U. Powell (Oxford 1925). This book, edited by specialists of cultural history and of Hellenistic poetry, proposes a new and original stage along the way of systematic collection, editing and reconstruction of that poetic heritage.
Keenan and Walker - Postclassical Greek and Cultural Identity in the Septuagint
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document ... 01593/html
Septuagint studies is currently in the middle of a shift, away from the characterization of its Greek as unintelligible and toward a view that its language is representative of broader Postclassical Greek. Combining perspectives from historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and cognitive linguistics, this volume seeks to better understand the language of the Septuagint and its position as an expression of cultural identity. Likewise, it aims to illuminate the various internal and external factors which produced diachronic language change, as evidenced in the Postclassical period.


This collection of essays was first inspired by the conference ‘The Septuagint within the History of Greek: Language and Cultural Identity in Postclassical Greek’ (SHG23), held in Cambridge in September 2023. This conference served as the official launch for the ‘Septuagint within the History of Greek’ Network (SHG) – an international research network originally conceived by Professor James K. Aitken (University of Cambridge) and Professor Trevor V. Evans (Macquarie University). Professor Aitken was a co-organizer for this conference before his untimely death in 2023. The conference and this volume are dedicated in his memory.
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Thanks for doing this!
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mikeatnip wrote: April 25th, 2025, 9:10 am Thanks for doing this!
No worries, it gives my weird brain something to do
I think I missed a couple I meant to upload but this will do for now. I am unlikely to check for new books in Greek for another couple of months at least but will head back over when I eventually do and upload a list

Published

Christman - The Frog Prince in Ancient Greek: Based on The Brothers Grimm Story
https://glossahouse.com/products/the-fr ... rimm-story
By Jonathan Christman, The Frog Prince in Ancient Greek, offers students of Koine Greek a rare and engaging opportunity to deepen their language skills through the lens of a beloved classic. This innovative translation of the Brothers Grimm’s “The Frog Prince” employs the vocabulary, grammar, and syntax of the Greek New Testament and Septuagint complemented by terms from broader Hellenistic Greek sources. Bridging the gap between beginning and intermediate proficiency (Tier 3 in AGROS), the text features a higher register of language, complex constructions, nuanced word choices, and occasional use of the optative mood. Also included are comprehensive footnotes, a vocabulary guide, and an English parallel text. The chapter and verse format mirrors biblical conventions for added familiarity. This work invites students to expand their mastery of Koine Greek while enjoying a timeless children’s fairy tale.
Simon - How to Pray in Biblical Greek: An Instructional Guide and Prayer Book
https://glossahouse.com/products/how-to ... rayer-book
Are you studying Biblical Greek and a bit overwhelmed by all the grammar, vocabulary, and rote memorization involved? Are you frustrated by an inability to apply your learning in a practical and meaningful way? Do you wish that there was a different way to learn the language that could supplement your textbook instruction? If this describes your situation, this book will advance your understanding of the language by teaching you how to pray in Biblical Greek using short phrases and prayers taken from the Greek New Testament, Septuagint, and other early Christian literature. These phrases and prayers are explicated for grammatical insight and vocabulary acquisition. Plus, when memorized for use in personal prayer, the fundamentals of Biblical Greek are more easily learned and retained. This book is unique in its approach as both an instructional grammar and a devotional aid that together will advance your understanding of Biblical Greek while deepening your relationship with the Lord through prayer.
May 2025

Lithari - Proclus, ›Hypotyposis Astronomicarum Positionum‹: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary with a Study of the Diagrams and Illustrations
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document ... 16011/html
Proclus’ Hypotyposis Astronomicarum Positionum, a late antique astronomical treatise, has been transmitted through Byzantine codices which usually record it among mathematical, philosophical or historical works. In the modern era, specific passages of the Hypotyposis have attracted the interest of historians of Greek astronomy and of scholars dealing with Neoplatonic cosmology, while the greatest part of it has been strikingly neglected. The present book offers a close reading of the entire Hypotyposis and an overall interpretation of its aim and scope within the framework of Greek mathematical treatises and Proclus’ works. It re-examines individual topics already touched upon in the secondary literature and sheds light on aspects of the treatise that have gone unnoticed. It includes the Greek text with an English translation, and a full-scale philosophical and mathematical commentary, framed by an introduction and a study of the astronomical diagrams and illustrations accompanying the text of Byzantine manuscripts. The book aspires to re-introduce the Hypotyposis to the scholarly community, by lifting obstacles emerging from the technical character of the treatise and by revealing its hidden treasures.

June 2025

Zachuber and Marmodoro - Gregory of Nyssa: On the Hexaemeron - Text, Translation, and Essays
https://global.oup.com/academic/product ... =en&cc=us#
This book presents Gregory of Nyssa's On the Six Days of Creation (In Hexaemeron) as a specimen of Early Christian philosophy. It comprises Gregory of Nyssa's text in its Greek original accompanied by a new English translation, and seven accompanying essays by international specialists from diverse backgrounds. Each essay focuses on a section of the text and the arising philosophical issues. The essays complement each other in offering multiple perspectives on how Gregory's text may be approached philosophically and positioned in relation to other, more or less contiguous, philosophical theories, including the early Greeks Anaxagoras and Empedocles, Aristotle, and the Stoics. Rather than presenting a definite and exhaustive state of the art study of Gregory's text, this volume aims to open new pathways for research into In Hexaemeron.


July 2025

Kline - The Hendrickson Dictionary of New Testament Words and Concepts
https://www.hendricksonpublishers.com/p ... 8400502491
What are the major conceptual and thematic categories found in the New Testament, and how does understanding them help us create a mental map of the world in which Jesus lived and the world of the early church? By presenting a broad range of New Testament words and ideas and grouping them according to conceptual and thematic categories, this volume helps readers immerse themselves more deeply in these worlds. The entries present the Greek words that lie behind their English equivalents and indicate or trace where these words occur in the New Testament, thereby providing those who have not studied the original languages of Scripture with new insights into the conceptual world of the New Testament that cannot be gained by only studying English translations.


August 2025

de la Villa et al. - Advances in Ancient Greek Linguistics
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document ... 48644/html
The grammatical study of the Greek language is the oldest in the Western world, dating back at least to the linguistic reflections of Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics. Ancient Greek texts and testimonies continue to be studied in three main directions: 1. analyzing new texts, not known until now, 2. revising known data from contemporary linguistic perspectives, and 3. proposing new theoretical perspectives from the detailed analysis of Ancient Greek data.

These two volumes contain 46 articles, originally presented at the 10th International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics, held at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, in June 2022. They are organized in five major sections, devoted, respectively, to the History of the Greek language: Phonetics and Morphology, Lexicon and Semantics, Syntax, Pragmatics and Discourse, and Digital methods of linguistic analysis. As a whole, they constitute an important advance in the description of Ancient Greek, while also providing an overview of the current state of the research on this language and of the main lines along which this study runs. Finally, they remind us of the extraordinary phenomenon of having continuous linguistic data on a language, such as Greek, for over 3,600 years.
Kline - New Testament Greek Morphology: Building Fluency Through Understanding Word Groups and Patterns
https://www.hendricksonpublishers.com/p ... 8400509742
A visually accessible, pedagogically friendly reference guide to New Testament Greek morphology (that is, the forms the words in the language take). By grouping the vocabulary words that occur in the New Testament according to the forms in which they appear, this volume gives students a solid conceptual framework in which they can mentally categorize the disparate “puzzle pieces” that make up the Greek language.



2026

Drinka and Ehrhardt - Excavating Language: Linguistic Connections across Latin, Greek, and Modern European Languages
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document ... 11800/html
The volume represents a cohesive yet multifaceted approach to themes, issues, and controversies concerning the role that Latin and Greek played in providing a template for the structural patterns and lexicon of the modern-day European languages. The authors engage in a careful examination of the evidence from the classical languages, tracing the origins of such structures as negation patterns from Latin, or request verbs from Greek. Among many other structures, they observe the continuing influence that Latin exerts upon learned structures and lexicon through time, but also its interaction with vernacular tendencies. At the same time, they provide valuable insight into the operation and motivation for change, in general.
Willi and Probert - Perceptions and Social Uses of the Ancient Greek Dialects
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document ... 79112/html
Research on the ancient Greek dialects traditionally focusses on the grammatical description of these regional varieties. But dialects are more than geographically conditioned varieties of a language: in antiquity no less than in modern times, dialects may assume a range of social meanings, as speakers associate specific forms of speech with communicative situations and purposes that are independent of geographical location as such. This volume aims to complement research on the grammars of the ancient Greek dialects by exploring sociolinguistic and socio-pragmatic dimensions of dialect variation in the Greek world. For example, what factors determine the choice of a given variety, in situations of competition between different dialects—including competition between Koiné Greek and regional dialects? How are regional dialects represented in literature, and what do ancient sources tell us about the para-linguistic associations evoked by the use of a given dialect? How do ancient scholars and grammarians evaluate dialect usage—including ‘unexpected’ dialect features in literary texts? How do social and historical changes impact on the relationship between epichoric and literary dialects?
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