Raymond-Jacques Tournay

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Raymond-Jacques Tournay OP (born March 28, 1912 in Paris , † November 25, 1999 in Jerusalem ) was a French Roman Catholic priest and biblical exegete and Assyriologist .

Life

Jacques Tournay was a son of Maxime Tournay and Marie Périnelle and was born on March 28, 1912 in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, the oldest of four siblings. He attended the primary school Frères des Écoles chrétiennes on the Rue de Grenelle, then the Collège Stanislas de Paris and the Collège Albert de Mun in Nogent-sur-Marne .

On September 14, 1930 he entered the Dominican novitiate in Amiens , where he was named Raymond . He studied philosophy and theology at the College of the Dominican Order in Le Saulchoir in Kain, a part of the parish of Tournai , where he studied with great theologians such as Father Yves Congar , Marie-Dominique Chenu and Antonin-Gilbert Sertillanges (1863-1943).

On July 14, 1936, Raymond Tournay was ordained a priest , was selected for the Bible School in Jerusalem and began to learn the Assyrian - Babylonian language with Canon Georges Ryckmans in Leuven . Shortly afterwards, he and Father Jean-Vincent Scheil O. P., who introduced him to the circle of Parisian orientalists , began to translate the famous Hammurabi code .

In September 1938 he went to Palestine , but returned to France in 1940 to attend courses from René Labat and Jean Nougayrol at the École pratique des hautes études until the end of the Second World War . He then began to study the legends of Gilgamesh . He also joined a network that was supposed to help Jewish colleagues, and expanded his campaign to include a commitment to the resistance , in particular through the dissemination of clandestine writings, although several times he was barely able to evade arrest by the Germans.

In 1946 he traveled to Palestine again to continue deciphering ancient inscriptions . There he repeatedly confessed to Arab victims of Israeli territorial policy ( UN partition plan for Palestine ).

From 1964 he became the teacher of the 17-year-old Prince Hassan ibn Talal , the brother of King Hussein of Jordan . For several years a car came every week to pick him up and drive him to Amman , where he taught him French , Hebrew, and even Aramaic . After the Six Day War , he played an unofficial diplomatic role as a mediator between the Jordanian royal family , France and the Vatican and even with some of his Israeli friends.

From 1972 to 1981 he was director of the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem (EBAF), where he also worked as a professor from 1946.

Raymond Jacques Tournay died at the age of 87 on November 25, 1999 in Jerusalem.

Awards

Fonts

  • (with Aaron Shaffer) L'épopée de Gilgamesh, Introduction, traduction et notes. Éditions du Cerf, 1977.
  • Quand Dieu parle aux hommes le langage de l'amour. Études sur le Cantique des cantiques. J. Gabalda, Paris 1982.
  • Le Psautier de Jérusalem. Éditions du Cerf, 1986, ISBN 978-2-204-02465-5 .
  • Voir et entendre Dieu avec les Psaumes, ou, La liturgie prophétique du Second Temple à Jérusalem. J. Gabalda, Paris 1988.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d The École Biblique, a 100-year history. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Louis H. Feldman: Josephus and Modern Scholarship (1937-1980). Walter de Gruyter. Berlin-New York, 1984, accessed on September 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ L'École Biblique. Retrieved September 29, 2019 (French).
  4. ↑ Faculty of Theology, honorary doctorates, 1,994 Prof. Raymond TOURNAY op Accessed on 30 September 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Tournay, Raymond-Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French exegete and Assyriologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1999
Place of death Jerusalem