Jean-Claude Haelewyck (born in 1952) is a Belgian professor emeritus,
semiticist, researcher in the fields of the Old Latin Versions of the Bible and Syriac Studies at Centre d’Études Orientales in Institut Orientaliste de Louvain,
Université catholique de Louvain
The Université catholique de Louvain (also known as the Catholic University of Louvain, the English translation of its French name, and the University of Louvain, its official English name) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. It ...
and director of FNRS (
Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique
The National Fund for Scientific Research (NFSR) (Dutch: ''Nationaal Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek'' (NFWO), French: ''Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique'' (FNRS)) was once a government institution in Belgium for supporting scient ...
).
Life
Haelewyck studied at the Catholic University of Leuven, where he obtained a master's degree in biblical philology and a master's degree in oriental philology and history. He completed his doctorate in theology in 1984 with the thesis ''Le texte dit lucianique du livre d'Esther. Sa place parmi les diverses formes et sa logique propre'' at the Catholic University of Leuven.
Teaching
He worked at the Centre d'Études Orientales of the Institut Orientaliste de Louvain of the Université catholique de Louvain and was director and researcher at the Nationaal Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NFWO). He also was a professor at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, president of the Belgian Academy for the Study of Ancient Near Eastern Languages (ABELAO) and editor of the online journal BABELAO.
Views
The contribution by Haelewyck in the Septuagint and Jewish pseudepigrapha, addresses the question of the annihilation of the other and reactions to this narrative element in the Greek tradition of the
Book of Esther
The Book of Esther ( he, מְגִלַּת אֶסְתֵּר, Megillat Esther), also known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as "the Scroll" ("the wikt:מגילה, Megillah"), is a book in the third section (, "Writings") of the Judaism, Jewish ''Tanak ...
, in the
Septuagint
The Greek Old Testament, or Septuagint (, ; from the la, septuaginta, lit=seventy; often abbreviated ''70''; in Roman numerals, LXX), is the earliest extant Greek translation of books from the Hebrew Bible. It includes several books beyond th ...
, the so-called "Lucianic" text and the ''
Vetus Latina'' and its Greek model, by comparison with the story of Esther in the
masoretic text
The Masoretic Text (MT or 𝕸; he, נֻסָּח הַמָּסוֹרָה, Nūssāḥ Hammāsōrā, lit. 'Text of the Tradition') is the authoritative Hebrew and Aramaic text of the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in Rabbinic Judaism. ...
.
J. C. Haelewyck in 1984, "defended his dissertation on the Lucianic text of the book of Esther", and he affirms that "passages where the AT and the Vetus Latina share the same text are passages where an old Hebrew text of the book of Esther becomes visible."
Kristin De Troyer
Kristin Mimi Lieve Leen De Troyer (born 26 May 1963 in Ninove) is an Old Testament scholar, theologian, writer and an (honorary) professor who has taught at different universities such as the University of Salzburg, the University of St Andrews, an ...
claim: "these passages are, indeed, very important, albeit in my opinion not for the Old Hebrew but rather for the Old Greek text."
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1952 births
Living people
Academic staff of the Université catholique de Louvain
Semiticists
French Hebraists
French biblical scholars
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research