Anneli Pirjo Marjukka Aejmelaeus (née ''Halonen'', b.) (September 18, 1948 in

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) is professor emerita of

Old Testament The Old Testament (often abbreviated OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew writings by the Israelites. The ...

and

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ern Culture and Literature in the Faculty of Theology at the

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, and is the vice-director of the

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Centre of Excellence "Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions". Before this, she held from 1991 to 2009 the position of Professor of Old Testament and Septuagint Research in the Faculty of Theology at the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

. In addition, from 1993 to 2000, Aejmelaeus was the Director of the research institute "Septuaginta-Unternehmen" at the

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Books

* ''Parataxis in the Septuagint: a study of the renderings of the Hebrew coordinate clauses in the Greek Pentateuch''. Helsinki: Suomen Tiedeakatemia. (). * ''On the trail of the Septuagint translators: collected essays''. Leuven: Peeters, 2007. (). * ''Täyttä hepreaa: johdatus Vanhan testamentin hepreaan''. Helsinki: Kirjapaja, 2007. ().

References

1948 births Living people Academic staff of the University of Helsinki Finnish expatriates in Germany Finnish theologians {{Finland-academic-bio-stub