Alfred Rahlfs' edition of the Septuagint
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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.[1] This edition is the most widespread edition of the Septuagint.[2]
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1935 original edition of the 2 volumes of Alfred Rahlfs' edition of the Septuagint | |
| Language | Koine Greek |
|---|---|
| Published | 1935 |
| Publication place | Germany |
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.[3][4] Many reprints were made later.[3]
The name of the 2006 revision is known as the Rahlfs-Hanhart, after the revisor Robert Hanhart.
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 manuscript".[5]
Revision
In 2006, Robert Hanhart edited a revised version of the text, known as the "Editio altera",[1] or "Rahlfs-Hanhart".[6][7][8]
The text of this revised edition contains changes in the diacritics. Otherwise it alters the wording of the main Greek text only in Isaiah 5:17 and 53:2, where two words "unanimously transmitted" in the LXX manuscripts have been replaced with conjectural emendations (Is 5:17 ἀπειλημμένων "of those taken" is replaced with ἀπηλειμμένων "of those expunged", and Is 53:2 ἀνηγγείλαμεν "we reported" is replaced with ἀνέτειλε μέν "he rose indeed").[2]
