Bernard Dubourg (20 August 1945 – 20 December 1992) was a French poet, professor of philosophy, translator and Hebrew scholar. Bernard Dubourg published in ''

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'' and ''PO&SIE''. He wrote several books of poetry, and translated the poetry of

J. H. Prynne Jeremy Halvard Prynne (born 24 June 1936) is a British poet closely associated with the British Poetry Revival. Prynne grew up in Kent and was educated at St Dunstan's College, Catford, and Jesus College, Cambridge. He is a Life Fellow of Gonvil ...

. He also translated studies of the

Samaritans Samaritans (; ; he, שומרונים, translit=Šōmrōnīm, lit=; ar, السامريون, translit=as-Sāmiriyyūn) are an ethnoreligious group who originate from the ancient Israelites. They are native to the Levant and adhere to Samarit ...

by James Alan Montgomery and

Moses Gaster Moses Gaster (17 September 1856 – 5 March 1939) was a Romanian, later British scholar, the ''Hakham'' of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish congregation, London, and a Hebrew and Romanian linguist. Moses Gaster was an active Zionist in Romania ...

, ''On the superiority of women'' by

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (; ; 14 September 1486 – 18 February 1535) was a German polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, theologian, and occult writer. Agrippa's ''Three Books of Occult Philosophy'' published in 1533 drew ...

, and published an annotated translation of the ''

Sefer Yetzirah ''Sefer Yetzirah'' ( ''Sēp̄er Yəṣīrā'', ''Book of Formation'', or ''Book of Creation'') is the title of a book on Jewish mysticism, although some early commentators treated it as a treatise on mathematical and linguistic theory as opposed ...

''. His two-volume work on the

New Testament The New Testament grc, Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, transl. ; la, Novum Testamentum. (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christ ...

argued that the Greek text was originally composed in

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

, according to the traditional procedures of

midrash ''Midrash'' (;"midrash"
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. Following Paul Vulliaud, Dubourg emphasised the importance of

gematria Gematria (; he, גמטריא or gimatria , plural or , ''gimatriot'') is the practice of assigning a numerical value to a name, word or phrase according to an alphanumerical cipher. A single word can yield several values depending on the cipher ...

in showing the coherence of his back-translated text.

Works

* ''25 poèmes'', 1971 * ''Parcours'', 1971 * (tr. with J. H. Prynne) ''Poèmes de cuisine'' by J. H. Prynne. Translated from the English ''Kitchen Poems''. Damazan: B. Dubourg, 1975. * (tr.) ''Chansons à la journée-lumière. séquentiel diurne 1'' by J. H. Prynne. Translated from the English ''Daylight Songs''. Damazan: B. Dubourg, 1975. * (tr.) ''Lézard de feu. séquentiel diurne 2''. Translated from the English ''Fire Lizard''. Damazan: B. Dubourg, 1975. * ''Sonnets'', 1975 * (tr.) ''motion''. Translated from the English ''The Proposal'' by Peter Baker, Damazan: B.Dubourg, 1976. * ''D'autres poemes'', Damazan: B. Dubourg, 1976. * ''Poèmes 82-83'', 1983 * ''Les Samaritains (leur histoire, leurs doctrines, leur littérature)'' by Moses Gaster. Translated from the English. Paris: O.E.I.L, 1984. * ''Les hommes du Garizim : histoire, théologie, littérature des Samaritains : avec une bibliographie samaritaine mise à jour'' by J. A. Montgomery. Translated from the English ''The Samaritans''. Paris: O.E.I.L., 1985. * (tr.) ''De la supériorité des femmes'' by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. Paris: Dervy-Livres, 1986. Translation from the Latin ''Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus'' * (tr. with J. H. Prynne) ''Massepain'' by J. H. Prynne. Translation from the English ''Marzipan''. Cambridge: P. Riley, 1986. * ''L'Invention de Jésus''. Vol. 1, ''L'Hébreu du Nouveau Testament'', 1987 ; Vol. 2, ''La Fabrication du Nouveau Testament'', 1989. Paris: Gallimard.

References

* ''Le Monde'', 8 January 1993 {{DEFAULTSORT:Dubourg, Bernard French historians of religion 1945 births 1992 deaths Philosophy academics 20th-century French translators 20th-century French poets French male poets 20th-century French male writers French male non-fiction writers