Alfred Rahlfs' edition of the Septuagint, sometimes called Rahlfs' Septuagint or Rahlfs' Septuaginta, is a
critical edition of the
Septuagint published for the first time in 1935 by the German
philologist 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, an ...
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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
Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, in
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...
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Many reprints were made later.
The name of the 2006 revision is known as the Rahlfs-Hanhart, after the revisor .
Main codices used
In his edition, Rahlfs used mainly three
codices to establish the text:
Vaticanus,
Sinaiticus and
Alexandrinus, with the Vaticanus as the "leading manusript".
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'' became ''ἀπηλειμμένων'', and Is 53:2 ''ἀνηγγείλαμεν'' became by conjecture ''ἀνέτειλε μένὰ'').
See also
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Roman Septuagint
The Roman Septuagint, also known as the Sixtine Septuagint (Sixtine ) or the Roman Sixtine Septuagint (sometimes ''Roman (Sixtine) Septuagint'', ''Roman edition of the Septuagint'' or ''Vetus Testamentum Iuxta Septuaginta''), is an edition of the ...
References
Further reading
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External links
1935 edition on WikisourceRevised edition online
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Editions of the Septuagint
1935 non-fiction books