Jean Margain

Jean Margain (24 February 1931 - 15 February 2012) was a French Hebraist. He is known by his Semitic and Samaritan studies.

 Life 

 Education 

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 the Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3.

 Academic work 

He was Director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and president of the Sessions de langues bibliques (in 1988). He also was Director of studies at École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), and Chair of Biblical and Targoumic Philology, from 1991 to 1996.

 Selected works 


 Le livre de Daniel: commentaire philologique du texte araméen. Beauchesne, Paris 1994. 


 References 

 Literature 



Category:1931 births
Category:2012 deaths
Category:French academics
Category:Hebrew language