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Assoc. Prof. John A.L. Lee FAHA

Honorary Member of Faculty (1986-present)

Assoc. Prof. John A.L. Lee FAHA [Faculty & Staff > Honorary Faculty]

Academic Classification

  • Associate Professor

  • FAHA

  • PhD (Cambridge, 1970)

  • BA (Sydney, 1966)

Assoc. Prof. John A.L. Lee was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Greek, University of Sydney, in 1973 and retired as Senior Lecturer in 2001 during which time students of St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College studied New Testament Greek under his lectureship (1986-1999). He was Chairman of the Committee on the Translation of Liturgical Texts, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia (1990-2014), during which time several Church services has been published in bi-lingual editions. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and was honoured in 2008 with the Gold Cross of St Andrew, the highest honour of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, for his service to this College and the Church.

Dr Lee was Grinfield Lecturer in the Septuagint at Oxford (for 2011-12). In early 2011 he delivered the first series of lectures and also offered a seminar in Cambridge and a lecture in Paris. His most recent conference presentations have been at the Soisalon-Soininen Symposium on the Septuagint (Helsinki, 2017), at the SBL Annual Meeting (Denver, 2018), and at the ASCS annual conference (online 2021). In 2015 he was honoured by a Festschrift entitled Biblical Greek in Context: Essays in Honour of John A. L. Lee, ed. J. K. Aitken and T. V. Evans (Leuven: Peeters, 2015).

Dr Lee is an Honorary Associate with the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney.

Bibliography

Books

  • The Greek of the Pentateuch: Grinfield Lectures on the Septuagint 2011–2012 (Oxford: OUP, 2018).

  • Basics of Greek Accents: Eight Lessons with Exercises (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2018).

  • A Lexical Study of the Septuagint Version of the Pentateuch (Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press, 1983; Reprint SBL, 2006).

  • With B. A. Taylor, P. R. Burton, and R. E. Whitaker (eds.), Biblical Greek Language and Lexicography: Essays in Honor of Frederick W. Danker (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2004).

  • A History of New Testament Lexicography (New York: Peter Lang, 2003).

Chapters in Books

  • ‘The Use of the LXX in the Liturgy and Lectionary of the Greek Orthodox Church’, in Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint, ed. A. G. Salvesen and T. M. Law (Oxford: OUP, 2021), [16 pp].

  • ‘Back to the Question of Greek Idiom’, in The Legacy of Soisalon-Soininen: Towards a Syntax of Septuagint Greek, ed. Tuukka Kauhanen and Hanna Vanonen (DSI 13; Göttingen: V&R, 2020), 13–25.

  • ‘Restoring a Vernacular Form of the Word for “Glass” in the Text of Revelation’, in Language and Literature of the New Testament: Essays in Honor of Stanley E. Porter’s 60th Birthday, ed. Lois K. Fuller Dow, Craig A. Evans, and Andrew W. Pitts (BIS 150; Leiden: Brill, 2016), 158–69.

  • ‘The Vocabulary of the Septuagint and Documentary Evidence’, inHandbuch zur Septuaginta: Handbook of the Septuagint, vol. 3 Die Sprache der Septuaginta: The Language of the Septuagint, ed E. Bons and J. Joosten (Gütersloh, 2016), 98–108.

  • ‘Accuracy and Idiom: The Renderings of mittahat in the Septuagint Pentateuch’, in In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes: Studies in the Biblical Text in Honour of Anneli Aejmelaeus, ed. K. De Troyer, T. M. Law, M. Liljeström (Leuven: Peeters, 2014), 79–99.‘

Articles in Refereed Journals

  • ‘Greek Idiom in the LXX-Pentateuch: The Preposition para,’ JSCS 52 (2019), 39–51.

  • ‘The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek: New Clothes for an Old Emperor’, NovT 59 (2017), 415–35 (Review Article).

  • ‘The Puzzle of John 21:15–17: A Formality Solution’, NovT 59 (2017), 27–30.

  • ‘The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: Their Evidence for Late Koine Greek’, Phronema 30.1 (2015), 23–42.

  • ‘The Literary Greek of Septuagint Isaiah’, Semitica et Classica 7 (2014), 135–46.

Book Reviews in Refereed Journals

  • Muraoka, T. A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint (2009), in BIOSCS 43 (2010) 115-25.

  • Fotopoulos, J. (ed.). The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in Greco-Roman Context: Studies in Honor of David E. Aune (2006), at BMCR 2007.03.23.

  • Muraoka, T. A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint: Chiefly of the Pentateuch and the Twelve Prophets (2002), in BIOSCS 37 (2004), 127–39.

  • Walser, G. The Greek of the Ancient Synagogue: An Investigation on the Greek of the Septuagint, Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament (2001), in BIOSCS 36 (2003), 134–9.

  • Wevers, J. W. Notes on the Greek Text of Deuteronomy (1995), in JSS 45 (2000), 177–9.

Participation in Church, Government, and Industry Bodies

  • Chair, Committee on the Translation of Liturgical Texts, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, 1990–present.

Honours and Awards

  • Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2005.