Édouard Paul Dhorme (15 January 1881 in

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, Nord – 19 January 1966 in

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(

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)) was a French

Assyriologist Assyriology (from Ancient Greek, Greek , ''Assyriā''; and , ''-logy, -logia''), also known as Cuneiform studies or Ancient Near East studies, is the archaeological, anthropological, historical, and linguistic study of the cultures that used cune ...

, Semitologist and translator of the

Bible The Bible is a collection of religious texts that are central to Christianity and Judaism, and esteemed in other Abrahamic religions such as Islam. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) originally writt ...

Career

He was director of the French School of Biblical Archeology in Jerusalem from 1927 to 1930, and director of studies at

École pratique des hautes études The (), abbreviated EPHE, is a French postgraduate top level educational institution, a . EPHE is a constituent college of the Université PSL (together with ENS Ulm, Paris Dauphine or Ecole des Mines). The college is closely linked to É ...

from 1933 to 1951, and a professor at

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from 1945 to 1951. He was elected a member of the

Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres The () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the . The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigraphy) and historical literature (see Belles-lettres). History ...

in 1948. One of his greatest works treated of the religions of

Babylon Babylon ( ) was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about south of modern-day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-s ...

and

Assyria Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , ''māt Aššur'') was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization that existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC and eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC t ...

. His French translation of the

Old Testament The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Isr ...

was prepared under the direction of Gallimard at the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. Along with Hans Bauer, Dhorme is credited with the decipherment of the

Ugaritic Ugaritic () is an extinct Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language known through the Ugaritic texts discovered by French archaeology, archaeologists in 1928 at Ugarit, including several major literary texts, notably the Baal cycl ...

writing system.

Principal publications

* ''Études bibliques. Choix de textes religieux assyro-babyloniens, transcription, traduction, commentaire'', Paris, 1907 * ''La Religion assyro-babylonienne : conférences données à l'Institut catholique de Paris'', Paris, 1910 * ''Études bibliques : Les livres de Samuel'', Paris, 1910 * ''L'emploi métaphorique des noms de parties du corps en hébreu et en akkadien'', Paris, 1923. * ''Études bibliques : Le livre de Job. Introduction, traduction et commentaire'', Paris, 1926 * ''Langues et Écritures sémitiques'', 1930 * ''La Poésie biblique. Introduction à la poésie biblique et trente chants de circonstance'', Paris, 1931 * ''L'Evolution religieuse d'Israël. Tome I. La religion des Hébreux nomades'', 1937 * ''Les Religions de Babylonie et d'Assyrie'', suivi de ''Les Religions des Hittites et des Hourrites, des Phéniciens et des Syriens'' par René Dussaud, 1945 ; 1949 * ''Recueil Édouard Dhorme : études bibliques et orientales'', Paris : Impr. Nationale, 1951 * ''La Bible'', Paris : Gallimard, 1956 * ''A Commentary on the Book of Job''(translation into English and preface by Francis I. Andersen - Nelson 1983)

Bibliography

*Agnès Spycket, « Les Archives d'Édouard Dhorme (1881-1966) à la bibliothèque du Saulchoir » in ''Revue Biblique'', 104:1 (1997): 5-39. Palmyrean and Syriac.
Biographie d'Édouard Dhorme sur le site Persée

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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dhorme, Edouard French Assyriologists Academic staff of the École pratique des hautes études Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 1881 births People from Armentières 1966 deaths French male non-fiction writers 20th-century French historians Academic staff of the Collège de France 20th-century French translators 20th-century French male writers