Alfred Rahlfs' edition of the Septuagint
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ToursExplore Lably’s 3D toursThe 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. Many reprints were made later.
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".
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Revision
In 2006, Robert Hanhart edited a revised version of the text, known as the "Editio altera", or "Rahlfs-Hanhart".
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").