Jean-Dominique Barthélemy (1921-2002), scholar
Jean-Dominique Barthélemy (1921-2002) was a French scholar.
Biography
Dominique Barthélemy, been born on May 16th, 1921 in Pallet and died in 2002, is a Dominican father, Old Testament scholar and epigraphist. He enters the orders in 1940 and is ordered priest in 1947. Member of the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, he studies the manuscripts of Qumrân and, in association with Joseph Milik, publishes fragments of manuscripts found in the cave 1. He becomes professor of Old Testament to the Catholic Faculty of Theology and the Vice-Rector of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). Since 1953 he is interested in the Qumran's rollers of the Small Prophets and publishes in 1963 "Les devanciers d'Aquila" (The Predecessors of Aquila), in whom he brings revolutionary hypotheses concerning the translations and the Greek revisions of the Old Testament. His work on the Dead Sea Scrolls revolutionized the study of the historical development of the Greek texts of the Bible. He was member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission.
Works on Second Temple Judaism
Books
- (with Józef T. Milik). Qumran Cave I (Oxford 1955)
- Les devanciers d'Aquila; première publication intégrale du texte des fragments du Dodécaprophéton trouvés dans le désert de Juda (Leiden 1963)
- (with O. Rickenbacher). Konkordanz zum hebräischen Sirach: mit syr.-hebrä. Index (Göttingen 1973)
- Études d'histoire du texte de l'Ancien Testament (1978 Barthélemy), book