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Jean Starcky
Abbé Jean Starcky (3 February 1909 – 9 October 1988) was a French priest who was one of the early editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls. He studied at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem. As a specialist in Palmyrene Aramaic and Nabataean texts he joined the international Dead Sea Scrolls team in January 1954. Origins of Jean Starcky Jean Starcky was born on February 3, 1909, in Mulhouse (where a street bears his name), in the Haut-Rhin. He is the son of Gabriel Starcky and Berthe Thérèse Gutknecht. He died in Paris, in Val-de-Grâce, October 9, 1988. Youth His father worked for the company DMC ( Dollfus-Mieg et Cie) where he became authorized representative in Poland and Czechoslovakia. Jean Starcky's youth was spent in Mulhouse in France, in Switzerland in Territet, near Vevey in Switzerland, where his family lived during the First World War, in Mainz and in Prague. Religious formation He asserted his rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Various forms of brackets are used in mathematics, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
