Alfred Rahlfs' edition of the Septuagint, sometimes called Rahlfs' Septuagint or Rahlfs' Septuaginta, is a

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of the

Septuagint The Septuagint ( ), sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (), and abbreviated as LXX, is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Biblical Hebrew. The full Greek ...

published for the first time in 1935 by the German

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Alfred Rahlfs Alfred Rahlfs (; ; 29 May 1865 – 8 April 1935) was a German Biblical scholar. He was a member of the history of religions school. He is known for his edition of the Septuagint published in 1935. Biography He was born in Linden near Hanover, a ...

. This edition is the most widely spread edition of the Septuagint. The full title of this edition is: ''Septuaginta: id est Vetus Testamentum Graece iuxta LXX interpretes''; this edition was first published in 1935, in 2 volumes, by the

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, in

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. Many reprints were made later. The name of the 2006 revision is known as the Rahlfs-Hanhart, after the revisor

Robert Hanhart Robert Hanhart (born July 6, 1925) is a Swiss Protestant theologian known for his scholarship of the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Jewish scriptures. He is a professor emeritus of the Old Testament at the Faculty of Theology, University o ...

Main codices used

In his edition, Rahlfs used mainly three

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to establish the text: Vaticanus,

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and

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, with the Vaticanus as the "leading manuscript".

Revision

In 2006,

edited a revised version of the text, known as the "Editio altera", or "Rahlfs-Hanhart". The text of this revised edition contains only changes in the diacritics and two wording changes in Isaiah 5:17 and 53:2 (Is 5:17 ''ἀπειλημμένων'' "of the received" became ''ἀπηλειμμένων'' "of the expunged", and Is 53:2 ''ἀνηγγείλαμεν'' "I reported" became by conjecture ''ἀνέτειλε μένὰ'' "he rose before").

References

External links

1935 edition on WikisourceRevised edition online
Editions of the Septuagint 1935 non-fiction books

Main codices used

Revision

See also

References

Further reading

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