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Stories from the Septuagint

Philo’s scrolls: the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, made here in Alexandria. Each story has a grammar lesson with practice exercises, and a gamebook in which you live the story yourself.

B1–C1 · 6 lessons and gamebooks · 📱 Phones · All language games

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Part 1 B1+ · PREMIUM

The Seventy-Two

Grammar: Reported speech

How the Law of Moses was translated into Greek on the island of Pharos, as the Letter of Aristeas tells it.

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Part 2 B1 · PREMIUM

Joseph in Egypt

Grammar: Narrative tenses

A coat, a pit, a prison and a palace: seven years of plenty and seven of famine.

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Part 3 B2 · PREMIUM

Jonah

Grammar: Conditionals

A prophet who runs away, a storm, a great fish, and a city that changes its mind.

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Part 4 B1+ · PREMIUM

Daniel in the Lions’ Den

Grammar: The passive

A decree that cannot be changed, an open window, and a night among the lions.

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Part 5 C1 · PREMIUM

Esther

Grammar: Formal requests and diplomatic language

A queen who must risk her life to ask the king one question, and ask it perfectly.

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Part 6 B2 · PREMIUM

Tobit and the Angel

Grammar: Verb patterns: -ing or to

A long journey, a great fish, a demon, a little dog, and a guide who is not what he seems.

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