Rémi Gounelle (5 January 1967,

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) is a French

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theologian, a professor of history of

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at the and dean of that same faculty since 2010.

Biography

Rémi Gounelle holds a doctorate from the

École pratique des hautes études The École pratique des hautes études (), abbreviated EPHE, is a Grand Établissement in Paris, France. It is highly selective, and counted among France's most prestigious research and higher education institutions. It is a constituent college o ...

, section of Religious Sciences, and a doctorate in theology from the

Lausanne University The University of Lausanne (UNIL; french: links=no, Université de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology, before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second oldest in Switze ...

. He was awarded the Prix Paul Chapuis-Secretan. He is the nephew of , Protestant theologian and professor emeritus at the . He is also related to pastor and

Michel Hollard Michel Hollard (10 July 1898 – 16 July 1993) was a French engineer and member of the French Resistance, French wartime resistance who founded the Espionage#Espionage in World War II, espionage group Réseau AGIR during the World War II, Second W ...

, a member of the French resistance . Rémi Gounelle is holder of an

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. In 2003–2004, he was a lecturer in the Faculty of Theology of the

University of Neuchâtel The University of Neuchâtel (UniNE) is a French-speaking university based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The university has four faculties (schools) and more than a dozen institutes, including arts and human sciences, natural sciences, law and eco ...

and scientific collaborator of the Romand Institute of Biblical Studies.

Research topics

Rémi Gounelle's research interests include the Acts of Pilatius and the "cycle of

Pilate Pontius Pilate (; grc-gre, Πόντιος Πιλᾶτος, ) was the fifth governor of the Roman province of Judaea, serving under Emperor Tiberius from 26/27 to 36/37 AD. He is best known for being the official who presided over the trial of J ...

", the Latin narratives of Christ's descent into hell, the formation of the canonical Scriptures and the statutes of the

Biblical apocrypha The biblical apocrypha (from the grc, ἀπόκρυφος, translit=apókruphos, lit=hidden) denotes the collection of apocryphal ancient books thought to have been written some time between 200 BC and AD 400. The Roman Catholic, Eastern Ort ...

, as well as the

homilies A homily (from Greek ὁμιλία, ''homilía'') is a commentary that follows a reading of scripture, giving the "public explanation of a sacred doctrine" or text. The works of Origen and John Chrysostom (known as Paschal Homily) are considered ex ...

by Eusebius of Alexandria and the Syrian-Palestinian literature of the fourth and fifth centuries, among others

Cyril of Jerusalem Cyril of Jerusalem ( el, Κύριλλος Α΄ Ἱεροσολύμων, ''Kýrillos A Ierosolýmon''; la, Cyrillus Hierosolymitanus; 313 386 AD) was a theologian of the early Church. About the end of 350 AD he succeeded Maximus as Bishop of ...

and

Eusebius of Emesa Eusebius of Emesa (c. 300c. 360) was a learned ecclesiastic of the Greek church, and a pupil of Eusebius of Caesarea. He was born in Edessa (in today's southeastern Turkey) and became the bishop of Emesa (in today's Syria). The Latin form of his na ...

.Rémi Gounelle
website of the

Marc Bloch University The University Marc Bloch, also known as Strasbourg II or UMB was a university in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. As of 2006, it had around 13,000 students. Its name used to be ''Université des Sciences Humaines'' (University of Social Sciences), but i ...

Publications

Books

*1997: ''L'Évangile de Nicodème ou les Actes faits sous Ponce Pilate (recension latine A)'', followed by ''La Lettre de Pilate à l'empereur Claude''. Introduction and notes by Rémi Gounelle and Zbigniew Izydorczyk. Translation by R. Gounelle from a text developed by Z. Izydorczyk, Turnhout, Brepols (Apocryphes, 9) *2000: ''La Descente du Christ aux enfers. Institutionnalisation d'une croyance'', Paris, Institut d'études augustiniennes (Collection des Études augustiniennes, Série Antiquité, 162) *2008: ''Les Recensions byzantines de l'Évangile de Nicodème'', Turnhout - Prahins, Brepols - éditions du Zèbre (Corpus Christianorum, Series Apocryphorum, Instrumenta, 3 ; Instruments pour l'étude des langues de l'Orient ancien, 7)

Direction of books

*2004: ''La Descente du Christ aux enfers'', Paris,

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(Cahiers Évangile, Supplement 128) *2007: (with A. Frey) : ''Poussières de christianisme et de judaïsme antiques''. Studies gathered in honour of Jean-Daniel Kaestli and Éric Junod, Prahins (CH), Éditions du Zèbre (Publications de l'Institut romand des sciences bibliques) *2008: (with A. Noblesse-Rocher) : ''Le Décalogue'', Paris, Cerf (Cahiers Évangile, Supplement 144) *2008: (with J.-M. Prieur) : ''Le Décalogue au miroir des Pères'', Strasbourg, Université Marc Bloch (Cahiers de Biblia Patristica, 9) *2009: ''Lire dans le texte les apocryphes chrétiens'', Paris, Cerf (Cahiers Évangile, Supplement 148) *2014: (with J. Joosten) : ''La Bible juive dans l’Antiquité'', Prahins (CH), éditions du Zèbre (Histoire du texte biblique, 9) *2015: (with B. Mounier) : ''La Littérature apocryphe chrétienne et les Écritures juives'', Prahins (CH), éditions du Zèbre

Collective works

* ''Christologie entre dogmes, doutes et remises en question'', ed.

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* Marc Boss and (dir.), ''Penser le Dieu vivant, Festschrift given to André Gounelle'', éd. Van Dieren, 2003

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