Charles Virolleaud

Jean Charles Gabriel Virolleaud (1879, Barbezieux, Charente – 1968) was a French archaeologist, one of the excavators of Ugarit.

Virolleaud was the author of La légende du Christ (1908) and was an advocate of the Christ myth theory.[1][2] He also wrote the books La Civilisation phénicienne (1933) and La Mythologie phénicienne (1938).[3]

Publications

  • Premier supplément à la liste des signes cunéiformes de Brünnow (1903)
  • Études sur la divination chaldéenne (1904)
  • La légende du Christ (1908)
  • L'Astrologie chaldéenne: le livre intitulé "Enuma (Anu ilu) Bel" (1908)
  • L'Astrologie chaldéenne: Supplement (1909)
  • La Civilisation phénicienne (1933)
  • La Mythologie phénicienne (1938)
gollark: The computer science exam board here uses BASIC to explain algorithms and stuff on exams, and requires you to write in it a bit.
gollark: What if you implement gravel with a Python frontend which compiles it to bytecode and a Rust bit which interprets the bytecode?
gollark: The gravel variants.
gollark: Have you considered using multiple names?
gollark: Yes. I REGULARLY end up having `npm` warn me of a project having serious security vulnerabilities after leaving it for a month.

References

  1. Case, Shirley Jackson. (1912). The Historicity of Jesus: A Criticism of the Contention that Jesus Never Lived, a Statement of the Evidence for His Existence, an Estimate of His Relation to Christianity. University of Chicago Press. p. 39
  2. Weaver, Walter P. (1999). The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century: 1900–1950. Trinity Press International. p. 69. ISBN 1-56338-280-6
  3. "Charles Virolleaud", in Je m'appelle Byblos, Jean-Pierre ThiolletJ, H & D, 2005, p. 257.

Further reading

  • Bibliography and overviews of his publications by several writers appeared in Syria: Revue d’art oriental et d’archéologie, 33 (1956).
  • Dupont-Sommer, André, “Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Charles Virolleaud”, Comptes rendus de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, (1969).
  • ObituarIes by André Parrot, “Charles Virolleaud (1879-1968)”, Syria: Revue d’art oriental et d’archéologie, 46 (1969), pp. 390–391, and by Ernst Friedrich Weidner, "Charles Virolleaud (2. July 1879 bis 17. December 1968)", Archiv für Orientforschung, 24 (1973), pp. 245–246.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.