Alfred Rahlfs' edition of the Septuagint

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]

Septuaginta: id est Vetus Testamentum Graece iuxta LXX interpretes

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 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").^[2]

See also

• Bible portal

• Roman Septuagint