Christian Amphoux
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Christian Amphoux | |
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| Born | July 17, 1943 Vannes, France |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Paris IV |
| Thesis | Le texte des épîtres catholiques: essais de classement des états de texte, préparatoires à une histoire du texte de ces épîtres' |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | philology |
| Institutions | French National Centre for Scientific Research Catholic Faculty of Theology |
| Main interests | New Testament Greek |
Christian-Bernard Amphoux (born July 17, 1943, in Vannes) is an honorary researcher in Greek philology at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and former director of the Académie des langues anciennes de Saintes (1981–1999).[1]
He studied classics in Rennes (1961–1962), then in Montpellier (1962–1967), where he obtained the agrégation in grammar. He became a high school teacher in several cities, while studying New Testament Greek. He studied textual criticism with Jean Duplacy and collaborated on an international project for a critical edition of the New Testament.
In 1974, he became a researcher at the CNRS, and in 1975 was awarded a lectureship in textual criticism and New Testament Greek at the Faculty of Protestant Theology in Montpellier.[2] In 1981, under the supervision of Jean Irigoin and Jean Duplacy, he defended a post-graduate thesis at the University of Paris IV, entitled Le texte des épîtres catholiques: essais de classement des états de texte, préparatoires à une histoire du texte de ces épîtres.[2]
In 1982, he was awarded a lectureship in New Testament textual criticism at the Catholic Faculty of Theology in Lyon,[1] while in Montpellier (1989–1993) he headed a CNRS team, GDR 797, for research into New Testament texts. He is attached to the Greek section of the Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (IRHT). He retired in 2008, and now organizes training courses on early Christianity and the relationship between religion and society.[2]
