In July 2015 the 6th International Septuaginta Summer School will be organised in Göttingen.

Participants will take part in 14 seminar sessions, during which they will have the opportunity to examine the evidence and methods for interpreting the context of the Septuagint, while contrasting the Pentateuch to the later traditions of translation (Kaige). Various cultural activities complement the programme.

Lecturer: Dr. James Aitken University of Cambridge

Lagarde-Haus Friedländer Weg 11 D-37085 Göttingen

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: 0049 (0) 551 50 42 96 90 Fax: 0049 (0) 551 50 42 96 99 e-mail: Septuaginta.UXAW@mail.uni-goettingen.de http://septuaginta-unternehmen.adw-goe.de

Gött ingen (Germany) July 6—10 , 20 15

Dr. James Aitken

is Lecturer in Hebrew, Old Testament and Second Temple Studies at the Faculty of Divinity of the University of Cambridge/UK, on the editorial board of the “Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint” and co-editor of the “Bulletin of Judaeo-Greek

Studies”. His research focuses on the question of the Septuagint's role in Jewish and Egyptian society, and also on lexicographical and semantic issues from the perspective of the Greek and Hebrew Old Testament.

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Lagarde-Haus Friedländer Weg 11 D-37085 Göttingen Germany

Phone: 0049 (0) 551 50 42 96 90 Fax: 0049 (0) 551 50 42 96 99 e-mail: Septuaginta.UXAW@mail.uni-goettingen.de http://septuaginta-unternehmen.adw-goe.de

International Septuaginta Summer School

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The Septuaginta Summer School will take place at the Faculty of Theology of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen:

Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2 D-37073 Göttingen Room E 19

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The participation fee for the Septuaginta Summer School is 300,- Euro. This fee covers:

5 nights (Sunday, July 5—Friday, July 10, 2015) in a single room (breakfast incl.) in a 3*-hotel (additional nights before or after the summer school can be booked extra)

an attractive cultural programme

14 seminar sessions (90 min. each)

course materials

Travelling costs, lunch and dinner will not be covered.

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All seminar sessions during the Septuaginta Summer School will be given in English.

From July 6 — 10, 2015, the 6th International Septuaginta Summer School will be held in Göttingen, one of Europe’s most beautiful university cities located in the heart of Germany.

The summer school is organised by the Septuaginta-Unternehmen of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities of Göttingen, which represents more than a century of critical study of the Septuagint. Cooperation partners are the Faculty of Theology of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the Centrum Orbis Orientalis et Occidentalis (CORO).

The course will introduce students and doctoral students from Europe and all over the world to the issues and methods in Septuagint study, and in particular will teach analysis of the language and vocabulary as a

means for evaluating the Septuagint text.

An attractive cultural programme will offer the participants an exclusive insight into the university town of Göttingen by following the trail of great scholars who built the rich tradition of the city and its university and shaped the well-known biblical research projects of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

The number of par cipants of the Septua-ginta Summer School is limited to 16.

Applica ons should be made before March 15, 2015 to the Septuaginta-Unternehmen, a n. of Chr. Schäfer (Chris an.Schaefer@ mail.uni-goe ngen.de). They should con-tain a statement of personal mo va on for par cipa ng in the Summer School as well as a curriculum vitae and previous student record.

Succesful applicants will receive the binding authorisa on to par cipate as well as detailed course informa on between March 20—25, 2015.

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