Edouard Paul Dhorme (January 15, 1881 at Armentieres, 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 Ecole pratique des hautes etudes from 1933 to 1951, and a professor at College de France from 1945 to 1951. He was elected a member of the Academie 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 Bibliotheque de la Pleiade. Along with Hans Bauer, Dhorme is credited with the decipherment of the Ugaritic writing system.
Etudes bibliques. Choix de textes religieux assyro-babyloniens, transcription, traduction, commentaire, Paris, 1907
La Religion assyro-babylonienne : conferences donnees a l'Institut catholique de Paris, Paris, 1910
Etudes bibliques : Les livres de Samuel, Paris, 1910
L'emploi metaphorique des noms de parties du corps en hebreu et en akkadien, Paris, 1923.
Etudes bibliques : Le livre de Job. Introduction, traduction et commentaire, Paris, 1926
Langues et Ecritures semitiques, 1930
La Poesie biblique. Introduction a la poesie biblique et trente chants de circonstance, Paris, 1931
L'Evolution religieuse d'Israel. Tome I. La religion des Hebreux nomades, 1937
Les Religions de Babylonie et d'Assyrie, suivi de Les Religions des Hittites et des Hourrites, des Pheniciens et des Syriens par Rene Dussaud, 1945 ; 1949
Recueil Edouard Dhorme : etudes bibliques et orientales, Paris : Impr. Nationale, 1951
La Bible, Paris : Gallimard, 1956
A Commentary on the Book of Job(translation into English and preface by Francis I. Andersen - Nelson 1983)
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