Dominique Gonnet (born in 1950) is a

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professor and a researcher at Institut des sources chrétiennes. He is a founding member of the Société d'Études Syriaques and has co-edited, in its collection of studies, ''Les Pères grecs dans la tradition syriaque''.

Biography

Gonnet was born in 1950 in

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Education

In 1970, Gonnet graduated in Classics at the

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. In 1971, Gonnet earned a CAPES in Classical Letters, and then, from 1976, a master's degree in linguistics. He studied at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

(1972-1973) and He entered the

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in 1973. From 1993, Gonnet holds a ThD at Centre Sèvres, with his thesis ''La liberté religieuse à Vatican II : la contribution de John Courtney Murray, SJ''.

Teaching

Since 1992 he has worked at the Institut des Sources Chrétiennes in Lyon as a research engineer associated with the Unité Mixte de Recherche HiSoMA (Histoire et Sources des Mondes Antiques, CNRS-Université Lyon 2). Gonnet has been teaching Syriac since 1993 for the

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. He is a Student chaplain and theology teacher in Aix and Toulon (in 1990). He also leads a Syriac seminar by videoconference at

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, which allows for further study of the language and literature.

Writings

Gonnes is author of several articles in the Syriac field. In the same collection, he published an article in The New Testament in Syriac as well as several others concerning different Syriac authors from Ephrem to Bar Hebraeus. With Jean Pflieger, he finalized the French translation of J. Healey's manual. Since 1992 he has worked at the Institut des Sources Chrétiennes in Lyon as a research engineer associated with the Unité Mixte de Recherche HiSoMA (Histoire et Sources des Mondes Antiques, CNRS-Université Lyon 2).

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