Jean-Dominique Barthélemy OP (16 May 1921,

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— 10 February 2002,

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), was a emeritus French professor, Dominican

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and biblical scholar.Notice biographique
sur le site des

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. He entered orders in 1940 and was ordained priest in 1947.

Life

Dominique Barthélemy was born on May 16, 1921, in Pallet near

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. In 1939, Barthélemy entered in the Dominican order, studying first in Paris and then in Jerusalem (1949–1951). It was at the French Biblical and Archaeological School of Jerusalem that he began to work as a university teacher and researcher. He studied the

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, and in collaboration with

Józef Milik Józef Tadeusz Milik (Seroczyn, Poland, 24 March 1922 – Paris, 6 January 2006) was a Polish biblical scholar and a Catholic priest, researcher of the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) through the deserts of Judea/Jordan, and translator and editor of the B ...

, he published manuscript fragments found in Qumran Cave 1Farah Mébarki,

Émile Puech Émile Puech (born 9 May 1941, at Cazelles de Sébrazac, Estaing, Aveyron, France) is a French Catholic priest, epigrapher and editor in chief of ''Manuscrits de la mer Morte.'' He is a government employed director of research at Paris' Centre natio ...

, ''Les Manuscrits de la mer Morte'', Éditions du Rouergue, 2002, p. 314, . From 1957 to 1991 he then became Professor of

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at the Theological Faculty

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, Switzerland, and from 1964 to 1965 he was dean of the Theology Faculty. From 1970 to 1978 he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Fribourg. From 1953 he was interested in small fragments of the

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( 8HevXII gr), and published in 1963 ''Les Devanciers d'Aquila'' ("The Predecessors of Aquila"), in which he brings revolutionary assumptions about revisions and Greek translations of the Old Testament.''La Bible grecque des Septante''
p. 60 et suivantes,

.. During the years 1969-1980, he served on the

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committee, "research ngthe pertinent history of exegesis of each ebrew Bible text criticalproblem up to the modern critical period." He is also known for his introductory book to reading the

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, ''Dieu et son image'' ("God and his image").

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*''Qumran Cave I'', with

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, 1955. *''Dieu et son image: ébauche d'une théologie biblique'',

, 1963. *''Les Devanciers d'Aquila, Éditions du Cerf, 1963. *'' Critique textuelle de l'Ancien Testament : rapport final du Comite pour l'analyse textuelle de l'Ancien Testament hébreu'', 1982-2015. *''Découvrir l'Écriture'', Éditions du Cerf, 2000.

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Tribute to Dominique Barthelémy
by

James A. Sanders James A. Sanders (28 November 1927 in Memphis, Tennessee – 1 October 2020) was an American scholar of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and one of the Dead Sea Scrolls editors. He was the first to translate and edit the Psalm Scroll, which contain ...

Bibliographie

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