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 widely spread edition of the Septuagint.[2]
Country | Germany |
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Language | Koine Greek |
Published | 1935 |
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.