Dr. Emmanuel Pétavel-Olliff (1836–1910) was a Swiss pastor and biblical scholar. He was son of Abram-François Pétavel (1791–1870), Neuchâtel pastor, pro-Jewish writer and author of the poem ''La fille de Sion; ou, le rétablissement d'Israël'' (1850) Pétavel-Olliff wrote an early history of the Bible in France (1864). In 1866 Pétavel-Olliff formed a society in Paris for the publication of a new

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French translation of the Bible which was to include Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and

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s. Originally the project had government support and the participation of Catholic scholars, but by the second conference in Paris in 1867 the Catholic scholars had withdrawn and the project was abandoned. In England Pétavel-Olliff was mainly known for the translation of ''La fin du mal'' which presented a Protestant case for

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.Stephen Travis - 1980 - p143 "... was the Swiss Emmanuel Petavel-Olliff, whose main book (1891) appeared in English ..."

Works

* ''La fin du Mal'' Vol.
''The Struggle for Eternal Life; Or the Immortality of the Just, and the Gradual Extinction of the Wicked''
* ''Le problème de l'immortalité'' Vol.2 translated into English a
''The Problem of Immortality''
with a prefatory letter by

Charles Secrétan Charles Secretan (January 19, 1815 – January 21, 1895) was a Swiss philosopher. He was born on 19 January 1815 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he also died on 21 January 1895. Educated in his native town and later under Friedrich Schelling in ...

. Translation by F. A. Freer. London. 1892. * ''La Bible en France ou Les traductions françaises des saintes Écritures'' Libraire francaise et etrangere, Paris, 1864. * ''La Loi du progrès'' 1869 * ''l'Egalité chrétienne'' 1869 * "Redeem the Time" * ''Appel aux Chrétiens Boers'' 1901; Le droit des Anglais dans La guerre du Transvaal et les conditions de la paix. Par un vieux Suisse 1900; "Voice of Alarm"
''Le plan de Dieu dans l'evolution: étude sur l'evolutionnisme Chrétien''
1902
''God's Plan in Evolution''
(1914)

References

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