Charles Perrot | |
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Born | Charles Marie Maurice Perrot 16 February 1929 Gannat |
Died | 11 November 2013 (aged 84) Moulins |
Education | Doctor of Philosophy |
Occupation | Theologian, biblical scholar, Catholic priest (1953–), priest, university teacher |
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Position held | honorary professor (2005–) |
Charles Perrot, (16 February 1929[1] – 11 November 2013) was a French Roman Catholic priest and biblical scholar,[1][2] He served as honorary professor of New Testament at the Catholic Institute of Paris.[3] A specialist in contemporary Judaism of Jesus,[4] Perrot has been known for his studies of the historical Jesus and the New Testament.[5]
In 1957, he got his PhD with the entitled thesis L'Arrière-plan de la narration synoptique hormis les récits de la Passion et de la Résurrection. Quelques hypothèses de critique littéraire.[6]
In 1953 he was ordained priest in the Diocese of Moulins in Allier, where he served as such and then retired with the function of dean of the cathedral.[7][8][4]
Perrot collaborated in the Association catholique française pour l'étude de la Bible. Congrès (1979 Paris, France) Etudes sur la première lettre de Pierre.[9]
C. Perrot is the author of Jésus et l'histoire (Desclée de Brouwer, 1993) which has become a reference book on the historical background of Jesus and the early Judeo-Christians.[10]
In 2005 he became honorary Professor of Exegesis of the New Testament at the Catholic Institute of Paris.[4] There he was one of the biblical scholars with Henri Cazelles, Pierre Grelot, Antoine Vanel, and Jacques Briend.[11] He was a Catholic theologian, having taught for a third of a century at the Catholic Faculties of Lyon (1960–1974) and at the Catholic Institute of Paris (1970–1994).