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Émile Puech (born 9 May 1941, at Cazelles de Sébrazac,
Estaing, Aveyron Estaing (; oc, Estanh) is a commune in the Aveyron department in the Occitanie region of Southern France. In 2016, it had a population of 491. The D'Estaing family, first mentioned in writings in 1028, was one of the most powerful families of ...
,
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) is a French Catholic priest,
epigrapher Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...
and editor in chief of ''Manuscrits de la mer Morte.'' He is a government employed director of research at Paris'
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. He has amended suggested readings and translations of some of the
Dead Sea scrolls The Dead Sea Scrolls (also the Qumran Caves Scrolls) are ancient Jewish and Hebrew religious manuscripts discovered between 1946 and 1956 at the Qumran Caves in what was then Mandatory Palestine, near Ein Feshkha in the West Bank, on the nor ...
, for example
4Q521 4Q521 or the 4QMessianic Apocalypse is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in the Cave 4 near Qumran. Description 4Q521 comprises two larger fragments. The original editor was Jean Starcky, though translation revisions have been proposed by Émile P ...
. He is a member of the editorial board of the scholarly journal ''
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'' and a frequent contributor of the academic journal ''
Revue Biblique ''Revue Biblique'' is an academic journal published by the École Biblique, an institute of a French community of Dominicans based in Jerusalem. The journal was established in 1892 by Pierre Batiffol and Marie-Joseph Lagrange Marie-Joseph Lagr ...
''.


Publications

* É. Puech, 'À propos de la Jérusalem Nouvelle d'après les manuscrits de la Mer Morte', Semitica 43-4 (1995) 87-102;


References

Living people 1941 births French biblical scholars Roman Catholic biblical scholars Old Testament scholars People from Aveyron French National Centre for Scientific Research scientists École Biblique faculty {{france-RC-clergy-stub