Alfred Rahlfs
Alfred Rahlfs ( / r ɑː l f s / ; German: [ʀaːlfs] ; 29 May 1865 – 8 April 1935) was a German Biblical scholar. He was a member of the history of religions school. Contents 1 Biography 2 Select bibliography 3 Notes 4 References Biography He was born in Linden near Hanover, and studied Protestant Theology, Philosophy, and Oriental Languages in Halle and Göttingen, where he received a Dr. Phil. in 1887. His professional career developed in Göttingen, where he was Stiftsinspektor (from 1888), Privatdozent (from 1891), Extraordinarius (from 1914), and Professor for Old Testament (from 1919). He retired in 1933 and died in Göttingen. Influenced by his teacher Paul de Lagarde, Rahlfs's academic interest focused on the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. Together with Rudolf Smend and others, Rahlfs was responsible for the creation of the Septuaginta-Unternehmen under Göttingen's and Berlin's Academies of Sciences and Humanitie...