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Étienne Trocmé (8 November 1924 – 12 August 2002) was a French historian of the birth of Christianity. A
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and Christianity of the 1st century scholar, Trocmé is the author of several works including ''Jésus de Nazareth'' (1972) and ''Enfance du christianisme'' (1997).


Biography

After he was a student at the
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(1946) and the
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, Etienne Trocmé studied literature and theology from 1947 to 1950, then in 1950 passed his
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(1960) He also spent one year at the
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(1946-1947) and another one at the
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(1950–1951), where he familiarized with the German language and followed lessons by
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.


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of the
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*Honorary degree of the
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in Tokyo His biographer Christian Wolff mentions he did not wear his decorations.Christian Wolff, Biographie d'Étienne Trocmé in Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes, année 2003, Volume 161, Numéro 161-2, (p. 769–772) http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/bec_0373-6237_2003_num_161_2_463650


Publications

Étienne Trocmé wrote more than 200 articles and books translated into several languages.


Memoirs

*''Le Commerce rochelais de la fin du XVe au début du XVIIe'', thèse, École des Chartes, 1952 * ''La formation de l'évangile selon Marc'', thèse d'État, Paris 1963


Books

* ''Jésus de Nazareth vu par les témoins de sa vie'', Delachaux & Niestle, 1971. * ''Le christianisme des origines au Concile de Nicée'', 1972 * ''Le Christianisme des origines à 325'' in
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, Histoire des religions, t. II, 1972 * ''The Passion as Liturgy : a Study in the origin of the Passion narratives in the four Gospels'', 1983 * ''La Rochelle protestante (1568-1628)'' in ''Histoire de La Rochelle'', Privat, 1985, (2e éd. 1991) * ''L'enfance du christianisme'', Hachette, coll. « Pluriel », 1999. *
L'évangile selon saint Marc
', Labor et Fides, coll. « Commentaire du Nouveau Testament, deuxième série », 2000. * ''Quatre Évangiles, Une Seule Foi'', Les Bergers Et Les Mages, coll. « Petite Bibliothèque Protestante », 2001. * ''Saint Paul'', coll.
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, PUF, 2003 (posthumous)


References


Sources

* Christian Wolff, Biographie d'Étienne Trocmé in ''Bibliothèque de l'école des Chartes'', année 2003, Volume 161, issue 161-2, (p. 769–772
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* Christian Wolff, « Étienne Trocmé », in ''
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'', vol. 37, (p. 3910)


See also

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Biblical criticism Modern Biblical criticism (as opposed to pre-Modern criticism) is the use of critical analysis to understand and explain the Bible without appealing to the supernatural. During the eighteenth century, when it began as ''historical-biblical c ...
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Historicity of Jesus The historicity of Jesus is the scholarly question in Biblical criticism and early Christian history of whether Jesus historically existed or was a purely mythological figure. Scholarly discussions questioning the historical existence of Jesus ...
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Paul the Apostle Paul, also named Saul of Tarsus, commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Apostles in the New Testament, Christian apostle ( AD) who spread the Ministry of Jesus, teachings of Jesus in the Christianity in the 1st century, first ...
{{DEFAULTSORT:Trocme, Etienne 20th-century French historians École Nationale des Chartes alumni École pratique des hautes études alumni French Protestant theologians French biblical scholars Commanders of the Legion of Honour Members of the Société Asiatique Commanders of the Ordre national du Mérite Commandeurs of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques Officers of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic Scientists from Paris 1924 births 2002 deaths