Jean Margain | |
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Born | Jean Fleury Marie Margain
![]() 24 February 1931 ![]() 4th arrondissement of Lyon ![]() |
Died | 15 February 2012
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Education |
Doctor of Arts
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Alma mater | |
Occupation |
Editor,
philologist
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Position held | Director of Research at CNRS (National Council for Scientific Research, 1988–), directeur d'études (
École pratique des hautes études, 1991–1996)
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Jean Margain (24 February 1931 - 15 February 2012 [1]) was a French Hebraist. He is known by his Semitic and Samaritan studies. [2]
Margain got his Doctor of Arts in 1988 with his thesis Les particules dans le Targum samaritain de Genèse-Exode: jalons pour une histoire de l'araméen samaritain at Université Paris III. [3]
He was Director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and president of the Sessions de langues bibliques (in 1988). [4] He also was Director of studies at École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), [5] and Chair of Biblical and Targoumic Philology, from 1991 to 1996. [6] [5]