A Grammar of the Old Testament in Greek

Thackeray's treatment of the Septuagint's grammar is a masterful reference work, which moved Septuagintal study forward."Why write a Grammar of a translation, in parts a servile translation, into a Greek which is far removed from the Attic standard, of an original which was often imperfectly understood? A sufficient answer might be that the work forms part of a larger whole, the Grammar of Hellenistic Greek, the claims of which, as bridging the gulf between the ancient and the modern tongue upon