The Orthodox Psalter Project

Note: Some of the pages on this site require the Greek font "Athena" or the updated version "New Athena Unicode" (recommended). Please download from HERE. In addition, some of the .DOC files require the excellent "GentiumAlt" font, which may be downloaded from HERE.

An overview of Greek translations of the Old Testament (in planning)

Polytonic Orthography

Ψαλτήριον [version 1] – Polytonic (LXX Liturgical Psalter in Greek) – HTML – RTF (rubrics still in preparation)

• Text derived from: Ψαλμοί του Δαυίδ - Βικιθήκη
• Originally from: Myrobiblios – Septuagint (LXX) text – Polytonic (study bible text, not arranged for liturgical use)
• 151 psalms in Greek according to the Ecclesiastical form / arranged stichometrically according to Swete (Unicode encoding) – Thomas Valentine: "I used the text that conforms to the Zoe edition OT in my possession, but arranged it stichometrically according to a copy of Swete's Septuagint (third edition) I borrowed. I added the footnotes (mostly alternate readings) found in the Zoe edition of the OT. As a whole, the textual differences between the Zoe edition and Swete's edition were few and minor. The most common difference was the addition or omission of a και at the beginning of a phrase. – Biography of H.B. Swete
• Another version, .TXT file

Ψαλτήριον [version 2] – Polytonic (study bible text, not arranged for liturgical use) – HTML – DOC

Psaltirion and Biblical Odes – Polytonic (study bible text, possibly not the standard LXX text, not arranged for liturgical use, requires the GentiumAlt font) – DOC

ΑΙ ΕΝΝΕΑ ῼΔΑΙ – Polytonic (The LXX Biblical Odes) – RTF

Please note: There are some versions of the LXX (Septuagint) text available on Protestant web sites, lacking capital letters and punctuation. I have chosen to disregard these texts as unusable for practical use. (Biblical scholars will be aware that this is the original format of the Greek text, but such a use of the Greek text is beyond the scope of this project.)

Psalter: MT-LXX (by Tov) – This is a .DOC file I found somewhere on the Internet in past years, but I can no longer determine its source. I am posting it "as-is" (one might encounter font issues) for study.

Monotonic Orthography

Ψαλτήριον Τερπνόν – Monotonic (Liturgical Psalter in Greek, with Psalm 151 and Biblical Odes) – HTML – PDF – DOC (Arial Greek) – DOC (Arial)

Ορθόδοξος Χριστιανική Γωνιά - Ψαλτήριο

Wikipedia articles

• Greek Orthography
• Polytonic Greek – Monotonic Greek (virtually the same article)

For Study:

• Στιχολογία τοῦ Ψαλτηρίου
• Ψαλτήριον - Ανάλυση περιεχομένου κατά περίσταση — [DOC]

Other Resources

• Apostoliki Diakonia has published the Psalter on their web site.
• The Septuagint Online – Texts and Translations
  
• Fr. Leo Schefe has published the Octoechos, Menaia, etc. at ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΚΑ ΚΕΙΜΕΝΑ (Greek Liturgical Texts)
• Entire Greek Bible
  
• Greek liturgical books
• Theodore Psalter (electronic facsimile, University of Illinois Press)