André Dupont-Sommer (23 December 1900, Marnes-la-Coquette – 14 May 1983, Paris) was a French semitologist. He specialized in the history of Judaism around...
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Rock Edicts of Ashoka. This inscription was published in 1970 by André Dupont-Sommer. Since Aramaic was an official language of the Achaemenid Empire...
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monasticism, following Ashoka's missions. According to semitologist André Dupont-Sommer, speaking about the consequences of Ashoka's proselytism: "It is...
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ruins of Old Kandahar, Afghanistan in 1963, and published in 1966 by André Dupont-Sommer. It was discovered practically at the same time as the Greek Edicts...
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reign of Roman Emperor Caligula would fit. Other scholars such as André Dupont-Sommer support a later date, perhaps during the reign of Emperor Hadrian...
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Baumgarten John J. Collins Sidnie White Crawford Frank Moore Cross André Dupont-Sommer Robert Eisenman Hanan Eshel Joseph Fitzmyer Peter W. Flint David...
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papyrus found in 1942 at Saqqara. It was first published in 1948 by André Dupont-Sommer.[citation needed] It is currently in the Egyptian Museum (J. 86984=3483)...
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Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 54. ISBN 1-85075-563-9. André Dupont-Sommer (1956). The Jewish Sect of Qumran and the Essenes: New Studies on...
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hoped-for temple is possible. Such is proposed by, among others, André Dupont-Sommer, Stephen Goranson, and Emile Puech.) Second, the treasure could be...
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archaeologist Max von Oppenheim (1860-1946) and the French semitologist André Dupont-Sommer (1900-1983) at Tell Halaf the former Aramean city-state of Bit Bahiani...
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