Robert Hanhart
Robert Hanhart | |
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| Born | July 6, 1925 St. Gallen, Switzerland |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Basel University of Göttingen |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | theology |
| Institutions | |
| Main interests | Septuagint |
| Notable works | Studien zur Septuaginta und zum hellenistischen Judentum |
Robert Hanhart (born July 6, 1925) is a Swiss Protestant theologian known for his scholarship of the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Jewish scriptures. He is a professor emeritus of the Old Testament at the Faculty of Theology, University of Göttingen and served as the director of the Göttinger Septuaginta-Unternehmen (Göttingen Septuagint Company), an institute of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities dedicated to creating critical editions of works of the Septuagint.