
Résumé
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In the eighties, Marguerite Harl and her colleagues at La Sorbonne began a French translation of the Greek version of the 'Septuagint' Bible, one of the founding texts of our civilisation. This was a double paradox: firstly, because in Renaissance times, the scholastic masters of that same university rejected the priority given to Greek sources by the humanist Erasmus secondly, because we would hardly expect one of France's secular universities to support such a venture. However, surprising as it may be, our academics have decided to pay homage to the traditional Greek texts of the Bible! Marguerite Harl, who presented a thesis on Origen, the first great Christian theologian, was elected to the post of professor of Greek at La Sorbonne, where she joined Henri-Irénée Marrou, then busy renovating the study of the ancient history of Christianity. By the sixties, she had inaugurated a programme based on the Greek Christian writers, until then absent from the Classics. She tells how she travelled from the 'Fathers of the Church' all the way back to the Jewish philosopher Philon of Alexandria, then to the Septuagint. But the author does not simply recount her own experience she develops a reflection that is highly relevant to modern debates on the transmission of the Bible through its translations and reading traditions, and on the relations between Judaism and Christianity. In this book, Marguerite Harl expresses and defends her conviction that the transmission and interpretation of religious texts can be achieved within a neutral and secular approach, without losing any depth or precision in understanding.
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Harl Marguerite |
Collection | L'histoire à vif |
Parution | 05/11/2004 |
Format | 14.5 x 21.5 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 480g |
EAN13 | 9782204076579 |
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