Édouard Paul Dhorme (January 15, 1881 at Armentières, Nord – January 19, 1966 at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin (Alpes-Maritimes)) was a French Assyriologist, Semitologist and translator of the Bible.
He was director of the French School of Biblical Archeology in Jerusalem from 1927 to 1930, and director of studies at École pratique des hautes études from 1933 to 1951, and a professor at Collège de France from 1945 to 1951. He was elected a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1948.
One of his greatest works treated of the religions of Babylon and Assyria. His French translation of the Old Testament was prepared under the direction of Gallimard at the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. Along with Hans Bauer, Dhorme is credited with the decipherment of the Ugaritic writing system.
Études bibliques. Choix de textes religieux assyro-babyloniens, transcription, traduction, commentaire, Paris, 1907La Religion assyro-babylonienne : conférences données à l'Institut catholique de Paris, Paris, 1910Études bibliques : Les livres de Samuel, Paris, 1910L'emploi métaphorique des noms de parties du corps en hébreu et en akkadien, Paris, 1923.Études bibliques : Le livre de Job. Introduction, traduction et commentaire, Paris, 1926Langues et Écritures sémitiques, 1930La Poésie biblique. Introduction à la poésie biblique et trente chants de circonstance, Paris, 1931L'Evolution religieuse d'Israël. Tome I. La religion des Hébreux nomades, 1937Les Religions de Babylonie et d'Assyrie, suivi de Les Religions des Hittites et des Hourrites, des Phéniciens et des Syriens par René Dussaud, 1945 ; 1949Recueil Édouard Dhorme : études bibliques et orientales, Paris : Impr. Nationale, 1951La Bible, Paris : Gallimard, 1956A Commentary on the Book of Job(translation into English and preface by Francis I. Andersen - Nelson 1983)Connected Articles
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