Émile Puech
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Émile PuechÉmile Puech (Cazelles de Sébrazac, Estaing, Aveyron
, France
, 9 May 1941) is a French Catholic priest, scholar and editor in chief of Manuscrits de la mer Morte. He is a government employed director of research at Paris' Centre national de la recherche scientifique
. He has amended suggested readings and translations of some of the Dead Sea scrolls
, for example 4Q521
.
Estaing, Aveyron
Estaing is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France.Located in the north of the Aveyron department in the Midi-Pyrénées region, Estaing is considered as one of the most picturesque villages in France. The village is very quiet during the winter months; it is in the summer that the...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, 9 May 1941) is a French Catholic priest, scholar and editor in chief of Manuscrits de la mer Morte. He is a government employed director of research at Paris' Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
The National Center of Scientific Research is the largest governmental research organization in France and the largest fundamental science agency in Europe....
. He has amended suggested readings and translations of some of the Dead Sea scrolls
Dead Sea scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 texts from the Hebrew Bible and extra-biblical documents found between 1947 and 1956 on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, from which they derive their name...
, for example 4Q521
4Q521
4Q521 or the 4QMessianic Apocalypse is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls.4Q521 comprises two larger fragments. The original editor was Jean Starcky, though translation revisions have been proposed by Émile Puech.The text begins:...
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Publications
- É. Puech, 'À propos de la Jérusalem Nouvelle d'après les manuscrits de la mer Morte', Semitica 43-4 (1995) 87-102;