Abbe Jean Starcky was a French priest who was one of the early editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
27 Facts About Jean Starcky
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Jean Starcky studied at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and the Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Francaise in Jerusalem.
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Jean Starcky was born on 3 February 1909 in Mulhouse, in the Haut-Rhin.
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Jean Starcky is the son of Gabriel Starcky and Berthe Therese Gutknecht.
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Jean Starcky died in Paris, in Val-de-Grace, on 9 October 1988.
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Jean Starcky's father worked for the company DMC where he became authorized representative in Poland and Czechoslovakia.
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Jean Starcky's youth was spent in Mulhouse in France, in Switzerland in Territet, near Vevey in Switzerland, where his family lived during the First World War, in Mainz and in Prague.
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Jean Starcky asserted his religious vocation very early on and despite his father's reluctance, he began higher studies at the Societe de l'oratoire de Jesus seminary in 1928 and then at the Institut catholique de Paris where he obtained a license in theology.
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Jean Starcky embarked on orientalist studies at the Institut Catholique de Paris and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris.
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Jean Starcky left the Oratory in 1935 with three other priests with whom he remained very close: Daniel Pezeril, Maurice Morel and Francis Connan.
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John Starcky was ordained priest of the diocese of Paris on 21 April 1935.
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Jean Starcky wrote his memoir for the Academy on Neolithic pottery in Jericho.
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Jean Starcky returned a year later to Beirut, where he taught Hebrew and the Old Testament at Saint Joseph University.
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Jean Starcky was parish priest of Palmyra when the French troops from Vichy stationed in the oasis.
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The Vichy army in Lebanon and Syria, having been defeated by the English army and by the troops of Free France in June 1941, Beirut being taken in July, Jean Starcky enlisted on 7 August as chaplain in the Forces Free French.
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On 27 November 1943 Jean Starcky became chaplain of the BIMP, which notably included Tahitians, Caledonians and Canaques.
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Jean Starcky took part in the fights in front of Hyeres and Toulon.
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On 11 April 1945 Jean Starcky was wounded in the face.
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Jean Starcky returned to the Middle East where he was one of the first residents of the French Institute of Archeology in Beirut, founded in 1946 by Henri Seyrig.
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John Jean Starcky was entrusted with the decryption and publication of the papyri written in Nabataean, a language close to Palmyrenian Aramaic from this cave 4.
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Jean Starcky published articles on Palmyra as well as on Petra and Nabatene.
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Epigraphist, archaeologist, Aramaic specialist, exegete, mastering many languages, Jean Starcky was deputy director of the French Institute of Archeology in Beirut from 1968 to 1971.
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Jean Starcky helped the latter to publish his work: The Hellenized Orient and he launched the excavations of Tell Arqa in Lebanon.
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Jean Starcky took part in translations of the Bible, to that known as Cardinal Lienart then to that of Jerusalem, for the Book of the Maccabees.
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Jean Starcky would have been one of the initiators of the ecumenical Bible, the TOB published in 1975.
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Jean Starcky participated very early in the magazine Bible et Terre Sainte, magazine which became Le Monde de la Bible.
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Jean Starcky set up this museum in Paris, in the premises of the Saint Jacques du Haut-Pas church, then at the Institut Catholique de Paris.