Personal info
Jean-Sébastien REY is Senior lecturer (Maître de Conférences HDR) at the University of Lorraine. After studying theology at the University of Strasbourg, he became « élève titulaire » of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem (2003–2004). In 2006, he obtained a PhD in Cotutelle with the Université catholique de Leuven, and in 2007 he became Lecturer at the Université de Lorraine – Metz in Biblical Science (Hebrew language, sciences bibliques (langue hébraïque, Psalms, sapiential literatures, Saint-Paul and apocalypsis). He defended an « Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches » in 2012. Since 2013, he is Director of the Revue de Qumrân (INT1). In 2012 he was awarded the prize Suzanne Zvi of the « Académie des Sciences de Nancy ».
Involvement in the project
Responsible of the critical edition of Ben Sira, the encoding and bibliographic data
Publications related to the projet
Édité en collaboration avec Jan Joosten, Conservatism and Innovation in the Hebrew Language of the Hellenistic Period. Proccedings of a Fourth International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls & Ben Sira, Leiden, Brill, Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 73, 2008
4QInstruction : sagesse et eschatologie, Leiden, Brill, Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 81, 2009, 397 p., XIII planches
« 4QInstruction and the Letter to the Ephesians on the husband-wife relationship and the honor to the parents », dans Florentino Garcia-Martinez (éd.), Echoes from the Caves: Qumran and the New Testament, Leiden, Brill, Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 85, 2009, p. 231–255
Édité en collaboration avec Jan Joosten, The Texts and Versions of the Book of Ben Sira: Transmission and Interpretation, Leiden, Brill, Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 150, 2011
« Un nouveau feuillet du manuscrit D de Ben Sira : notes de philologie et de critique textuelle », Revue de Qumrân 99 (2012), p. 395-422
