Commission for the Septuaginta-Unternehmen

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research organization scholarly commission

The Commission for the Septuaginta-Unternehmen is a scholarly body dedicated to producing a critical edition and conducting advanced research on the Septuagint, the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Commission for the Septuaginta-Unternehmen canonical	1
Göttingen Septuagint	1
Septuaginta-Unternehmen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1495763 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Commission for the Septuaginta-Unternehmen
Context triple: [Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, hasPart, Commission for the Septuaginta-Unternehmen]

A. Septuagint
The Septuagint is an ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures that became the primary Old Testament text for early Christians and Greek-speaking Jews.
B. Hexapla
Hexapla is a massive critical edition of the Hebrew Bible compiled by the early Christian scholar Origen, presenting multiple parallel Greek and Hebrew text versions for comparative study.
C. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia is a critical scholarly edition of the Hebrew Bible widely used as a standard reference text in biblical studies and translations.
D. Peshitta
The Peshitta is the standard Syriac version of the Bible, historically central to Syriac Christianity’s scripture and liturgy.
E. Letter of Aristeas
The Letter of Aristeas is a Hellenistic Jewish pseudepigraphal work that narrates the legendary origins of the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible known as the Septuagint.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Commission for the Septuaginta-Unternehmen
Target entity description: The Commission for the Septuaginta-Unternehmen is a scholarly body dedicated to producing a critical edition and conducting advanced research on the Septuagint, the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible.

A. Septuagint
The Septuagint is an ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures that became the primary Old Testament text for early Christians and Greek-speaking Jews.
B. Hexapla
Hexapla is a massive critical edition of the Hebrew Bible compiled by the early Christian scholar Origen, presenting multiple parallel Greek and Hebrew text versions for comparative study.
C. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia is a critical scholarly edition of the Hebrew Bible widely used as a standard reference text in biblical studies and translations.
D. Peshitta
The Peshitta is the standard Syriac version of the Bible, historically central to Syriac Christianity’s scripture and liturgy.
E. Letter of Aristeas
The Letter of Aristeas is a Hellenistic Jewish pseudepigraphal work that narrates the legendary origins of the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible known as the Septuagint.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (39)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	research organization ⓘ scholarly commission ⓘ
field	Septuagint studies ⓘ ancient Judaism ⓘ biblical studies ⓘ classical philology ⓘ textual criticism ⓘ
focusesOn	Septuagint ⓘ ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible ⓘ critical edition of the Septuagint ⓘ textual criticism of the Septuagint ⓘ
goal	clarify the textual history of the Septuagint ⓘ conduct advanced research on the Septuagint ⓘ produce a critical edition of the Septuagint ⓘ provide scholarly tools for the study of the Greek Old Testament ⓘ
hasResearchActivity	analysis of textual variants ⓘ collation of Septuagint manuscripts ⓘ comparison of Greek and Hebrew biblical texts ⓘ reconstruction of earlier Septuagint text forms ⓘ study of translation techniques in the Septuagint ⓘ
hasScope	academic research ⓘ international scholarly collaboration ⓘ long-term editorial projects ⓘ
methodology	historical-critical method ⓘ philological analysis ⓘ textual criticism ⓘ
produces	academic articles ⓘ critical editions ⓘ scholarly monographs ⓘ text-critical apparatuses ⓘ
servesCommunity	biblical scholars ⓘ classicists ⓘ historians of ancient Judaism ⓘ theologians ⓘ
studies	Hebrew Bible ⓘ linked to: Tanakh Old Testament in Greek ⓘ
usesLanguage	German ⓘ Greek ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities → hasPart → Commission for the Septuaginta-Unternehmen ⓘ

Rahlfs Septuagint manuscript catalogue → relatedTo → Göttingen Septuagint ⓘ

linked to: Commission for the Septuaginta-Unternehmen

Alfred Rahlfs → employer → Septuaginta-Unternehmen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen ⓘ