Dr Matthieu Richelle (born 1978) is Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Hebrew at the Faculté Libre de Théologie Evangélique (Vaux-sur-Seine, France). He is a member of the UMR 7192 Research team (CNRS/Collège de France).Bio
While teaching maths (in which he holds a B.A. from the University of Avignon), Matthieu studied Semitic Languages (Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, Ugaritic, Ethiopic, Akkadian, Syriac and Arabic) at the School of Ancient Middle Eastern Languages and Civilisations (Institut Catholique de Paris) where he earned a M.A. in "Ancient Eastern Languages and Literature". Then he earned a Ph.D. in Historical and Philological Sciences at the EPHE (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne) in December 2010 (jury: A. Lemaire, F. Bron, T. Römer, C. Dogniez, M. Weigl). The subject of his dissertation, written under the supervision of André Lemaire, was:“The Kingdom of Israel During the First Half of the 8th Century b.c.e.: Critical Analysis of the Epigraphical, Biblical and Archaeological Sources”. Thanks to a scholarship from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, he passed the academic year of 2009/2010 at the Ecole Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem where he earned the degree of "étudiant titulaire".
He is the author of Le Testament d'Elisée: Texte massorétique et Septante en 2 Rois 13.10-14.16 (Cahiers de la Revue Biblique 76), of articles in various academic journals (RB, ZAW, BN, ADAJ; VT and Semitica forthcoming), and a contributor to the Enclyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. His main research fields are the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible (especially in Kings), and West-Semitic Epigraphy. Detailed CV available here.
Matthieu is married to Sarah, pastoral assistant at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Paris.
Contact
Matthieu RichelleFaculté Libre de Théologie Evangélique
85, avenue de Cherbourg
F-78740 Vaux-sur-Seine
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