News Archive

Obituary – Professor Robert Hanhart (6 July 1925 – 11 July 2025)
Oct. 7, 2025, 6:31 p.m.

Professor Robert Hanhart, the most distinguished Septuagint scholar of our age, died peacefully in Göttingen on 11 July 2025 at the age of 100. His passing deprives Septuagint studies of …

United Against Antisemitism
Oct. 7, 2025, 2:24 p.m.

As members of the Göttinger Septuaginta, we express our unwavering solidarity with Israel and the Jewish people. We categorically denounce all forms of antisemitism and the spread of disinformation about …

Dr Maria Tomadaki appointed Assistant Professor of Byzantine Philology at the University of Ioannina
May 1, 2024, 11:46 a.m.

We are pleased to announce that Dr Maria Tomadaki, a valued member of our Psalter team, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Byzantine Philology at the University of Ioannina in …

Statement of the Göttinger Septuaginta on the October 7, 2023 Hamas Terrorist Attack on Israel and Its Aftermath
Jan. 31, 2024, 4:56 p.m.

We, representing the Göttinger Septuaginta, unequivocally condemn the terrorist attack perpetrated by Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023 and the continuing strategy by that organisation and other ones like …

Open Positions
Dec. 9, 2023, 2:58 p.m.

The Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony (Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen) seeks to appoint from 1.1.2024 two research assistants (f/m/d) for the research unit of …

Byzantinische Kulturgeschichte
July 31, 2023, 4:35 p.m.

Lecture series of the Psalter Project in cooperation with the Department of Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

→ Lecture series, 27 April – 13 July …

Collecting – Presenting – Studying – Transmitting
March 27, 2023, 8:15 p.m.

The Scriptural Interpretation of Early Church Authors in Old Manuscripts and New Databases

→ Conference in Vienna, 23-25 March 2023