86:(Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen). From 1908 to 2015, the responsibility for producing a complete critical edition of the Greek Old Testament belonged to the Septuaginta-Unternehmen. The project was led by six scholars over the course of its duration: Alfred Rahlfs (1908–1933), Werner Kappler (1933–1944), Emil Große-Brauckmann (1952–1961),
63:(LXX). The task of each SVTG volume is thus to reconstruct the oldest attainable text version (i.e., before its later recensions) of a given book in a critical edition and to document its transmission as thoroughly as possible. The vision for the project stretches back to the approach to study of the LXX initiated by
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of the Greek
Psalter"). It officially began on January 1, 2020, and is scheduled to run for 21 years. As a product of its larger aim of exploring the complex and extensive tradition and textual history of the Greek Psalter, this new project will culminate in the publication of a new critical edition
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Septuagint (i.e., the "Old Greek") may be described as "a collection of the oldest recoverable texts, carefully restored book by book (or section by section), aiming at achieving the closest approximation to the original translations (from Hebrew or Aramaic) or compositions
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Albrecht. This Commission officially ran from 2016–2019, and resulted in the publication of two new editions and a number of revised printings of earlier volumes. From 2020 onwards, the production of the remaining books in the SVTG project will be conducted by the Robert Hanhart Foundation
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Since the early twentieth century, preparation of the major critical edition of the
Septuagint has been centered in Göttingen. From its inception, the project's goal was to produce a comprehensive critical, eclectic edition of the entire corpus of ancient Greek translations known as the "Septuagint"
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Following the close of the
Septuaginta-Unternehmen, the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities established another commission in 2016 to carry on the task of editing and producing the Göttingen Septuagint: Kommission zur Edition und Erforschung der Septuaginta ("Commission for the Edition and
54:. The project was founded by Alfred Rahlfs in 1908, and continues today under the direction of Reinhard G. Kratz and Felix Albrecht. As of 2024, 26 volumes have been published (out of 37 total). The project is about 75% complete, and work on each of the remaining 11 volumes is in progress.
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of the Psalms and Odes for the Göttingen SVTG series. This will replace the outdated and inadequate edition by Alfred Rahlfs from 1931. The critically reconstructed text will be provided in a hybrid edition—both as a printed book and an online edition.
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1162:, edited by Reinhard G. Kratz and Bernhard Neuschäfer, pp. 1–10. Mitteilungen des Septuaginta-Unternehmens 30. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013.
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Albrecht, Felix. "The History of Septuagint Studies: Editions of the Septuagint." In
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Modern Printed Editions of the Jewish Bible and Its Christian Versions
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In 2020, a new long-term project of the Academy was established: “Die
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Die Göttinger Septuaginta: Ein editorisches Jahrhundertprojekt
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Albrecht, "Report on the Göttingen Septuagint," pp. 201–202.
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869:———; ——— (eds.),
773:, SVTG 16.1N, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
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Trebolle Barrera, Julio; Torijano, Pablo A. (eds.),
795:, SVTG 16.2, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
749:, SVTG 16.1, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
627:, SVTG 12.3, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
602:, SVTG 12.2, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
577:, SVTG 12.1, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
557:, SVTG 11.4, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
534:, SVTG 11.2, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
481:, SVTG 9.3, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
456:, SVTG 9.2, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
428:, SVTG 9.1, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
408:, SVTG 8.5, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
388:, SVTG 8.4, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
363:, SVTG 8.3, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
338:, SVTG 8.2, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
313:, SVTG 8.1, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
293:, SVTG 7.2, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
265:, SVTG 4.3, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
240:, SVTG 3.2, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
215:, SVTG 3.1, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
195:, SVTG 2.2, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
175:, SVTG 2.1, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
1197:Kratz, Reinhard G., and Bernhard Neuschäfer, eds.
918:, SVTG 11.3, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
909:, SVTG 11.1, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
724:, SVTG 15, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
699:, SVTG 14, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
650:, SVTG 13, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
509:, SVTG 10, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
891:, SVTG 9.4, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
882:, SVTG 7.1, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
873:, SVTG 6.2, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
864:, SVTG 6.1, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
855:, SVTG 5.2, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
846:, SVTG 5.1, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
834:, SVTG 4.2, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
825:, SVTG 4.1, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
155:, SVTG 1, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
900:, SVTG 10, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
1052:Kratz, "100 Jahre Göttinger Septuaginta," p. 1.
1034:Kratz, "100 Jahre Göttinger Septuaginta," p. 1.
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905:Gentry, Peter J.; Schulz-FlĂĽgel, Eva (eds.),
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110:Research of the Septuagint"), directed by
1190:Albrecht, Felix, and Frank Feder, eds.
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960:https://septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/
133:Septuaginta: Vetus Testamentum Graecum
32:Septuaginta: Vetus Testamentum Graecum
1185:The Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint
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830:——— (ed.),
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621:Albrecht, Felix, ed. (2018),
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862:Regnorum Liber III (Regum I)
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