Marie-Joseph Lagrange

Marie-Joseph Lagrange

Marie-Joseph Lagrange (7 March 1855 - 10 March 1938; earlier Albert Marie-Henri Lagrange) was a Catholic priest in the Dominican Order and founder of the École Biblique in Jerusalem. A scholar of wide-ranging interests, he was the author of Critique textuelle; II, La critique rationnelle (Paris, 1936), an influential handbook of textual theory and method as related to the textual criticism of the New Testament.

Further reading

• Jean Guitton, Portrait du père Lagrange, celui qui a réconcilié la science et la foi, Robert Laffont, 1992.
• Bernard Montagnes, Marie-Joseph Lagrange - Une biographie critique, Paris, Cerf, 2004.

External links

• The Story of Father Marie-Joseph Lagrange: Founder of the Modern Catholic Bible Study
• Marie-Joseph Lagrange on the Encyclopædia Britannica

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Name	Lagrange, Marie-Joseph
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Date of birth	7 March 1855
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Date of death	10 March 1938
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