Maria Maddalena "Madeleine" Scopello (born 4 November 1953) is a French historian of religion. She is director of research at the

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(UMR 8167 "Orient et Méditerranée", Classical and Late Antiquity, Paris-Sorbonne) and director of studies at the

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(chair of

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and

Manichaeism Manichaeism (; in ; ) is an endangered former major world religion currently only practiced in China around Cao'an,R. van den Broek, Wouter J. Hanegraaff ''Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times''. SUNY Press, 1998 p. 37 found ...

).Curriculum vitae
. ''EPHE''. She also teaches at the

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, Faculty of History (History of Ancient Christianity).

Education

Madeleine Scopello holds a doctorate in literature from the

University of Turin The University of Turin (Italian language, Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public university, public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont (Italy), Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the List ...

, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy (thesis on the

history of Christianity The history of Christianity began with the life of Jesus, an itinerant Jewish preacher and teacher, who was Crucifixion of Jesus, crucified in Jerusalem . His followers proclaimed that he was the Incarnation (Christianity), incarnation of Go ...

, graduated ''

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'' in 1977) and a

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, obtained in 2006 at

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Research

As a historian of

Late Antique Late antiquity marks the period that comes after the end of classical antiquity and stretches into the onset of the Early Middle Ages. Late antiquity as a period was popularized by Peter Brown in 1971, and this periodization has since been wide ...

religions, Madeleine Scopello is a specialist in

and

, working on both primary and secondary literature of Coptic, Greek, and Latin texts. She also works on religious doctrine, history and society, and studies on women. Her research also focuses on Jewish and mystical literature,

patristic Patristics, also known as Patrology, is a branch of theological studies focused on the writings and teachings of the Church Fathers, between the 1st to 8th centuries CE. Scholars analyze texts from both orthodox and heretical authors. Patristics em ...

texts,

Christian apocrypha The New Testament apocrypha (singular apocryphon) are a number of writings by early Christians that give accounts of Jesus and his teachings, the nature of God, or the teachings of his apostles and of their lives. Some of these writings were cited ...

and religious polemic literature. In 2006, she organized the first international colloquium on the Coptic

Gospel of Judas The Gospel of Judas is a non-canonical religious text. Its content consists of conversations between Jesus and his disciples, especially Judas Iscariot. The only copy of it known to exist is a Coptic language text that is part of the Codex ...

(October 27–28, 2006, proceedings published under her direction in 2008). She also co-organized "Les forces du bien et du mal dans les premiers siècles de l'Église" (Université de Tours, 11-13/09/2008), with B. Pouderon and Y.M. Blanchard and "Les textes de Nag Hammadi: Histoire des religions et approches contemporaines" (

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, 11-12/12/2008), with J.-P. Mahé and P.-H. Poirier. In 2014, she organized the international colloquium "Les femmes dans le manichéisme occidental et oriental",

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, Maison de la Recherche (27-28/06/2014).

Affiliations

* Labex-Resmed (member) *

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* Association Francophone de Coptologie (founding member) * International Association of Coptic Studies (IACS) * Société d’histoire des religions Ernest-Renan * International Association of Manichaean Studies (IAMS) * Association Antiquité tardive * Institut pour la recherche de l’étude des religions (IRER) * Association des Amis de la Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH) *

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Proceedings (California) * Groupe de recherche sur le christianisme ancien et l’Antiquité tardive (GRECAT),

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, Québec * Groupe suisse d’études patristiques

Editorial work

Scopello is a member of the editorial boards of: *"Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies" series, Leiden, Brill *''Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa'', Turin/Florence, Leo Olschki *''Gnosis'' (review), Leiden, Brill *''Le Monde des religions'' (review) (Groupe

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) She is also the director of the ''Religions in History'' series by Presses Universitaires Paris-Sorbonne (PUPS), which was started in 2006.

Books and articles (selected)

* ''L’Exégèse de l’âme'', introd., trans., commentary, Leiden, Brill, ed. Nag Hammadi studies, 1985. * ''Les Gnostiques'', Paris, Cerf, 1991 raduction italienne: ''Gli Gnostici'', Milan, Ed. Paoline, 1993 * ''L’Allogène (Nag Hammadi XI, 3)'', with W.-P. Funk, P.-H. Poirier et J. D. Turner, ed. Bibliothèque copte de Nag Hammadi. Section Textes, Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval & Louvain, Peeters, 2004 rans. française du texte copte, * ''Femme, Gnose et manichéisme: de l'espace du mythique au territoire du réel'', Leiden, Brill, ed. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies, 2005. * Saint Augustin, ''Sur la Genèse contre les Manichéens; Sur la Genèse au sens littéral: livre inachevé'', with A.-I. Bouton, M. Dulaey & P. Monat., ed. Bibliothèque augustinienne, Paris, Institut d’études augustiniennes, 2005 ntroduction. II: La polémique d’Augustin avec le manichéisme, * ''Les Évangiles apocryphes'', ed. Petite bibliothèque des spiritualités, Paris, Plon, 2007. * ''Les Évangiles apocryphes'', revised ed., Paris, Presses de la Renaissance, 2016.

Conference proceedings

* ''The Gospel of Judas in Context, Proceedings of the First Conference on the Gospel of Judas held in Paris Sorbonne, 27th-28th October 2006'', Edited by M. Scopello, « Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies » LXII, Leiden, Brill, 2008 ) * ''Gnosis and Revelation. Ten Studies on Codex Tchacos'', Edited by M. Scopello, Florence, Leo Olschki, 2009 (= ''Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa'' 46 (2008)/3). * ''Les textes de Nag Hammadi: Histoire des religions et approches contemporaines. Actes du Colloque international tenu à l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 11-12 décembre 2008'', J.P. Mahé, P.-H. Poirier, M. Scopello éds., Paris, AIBL-Diffusion De Boccard, 2010. * ''‘In Search of Truth’: Augustine, Manichaeism and Other Gnosticism. Studies for Johannes van Oort at Sixty'', Edited by J.A. van den Berg, A. Kotzé, T. Nicklas and M. Scopello, « Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies » LXXIV, Leiden, Brill, 2011. * ''Les forces du bien et du mal dans les premiers siècles de l’Église'', ''Actes du Colloque Patristique IV'', Université de Tours, 11-13 septembre 2008, Y.-M. Blanchard, B. Pouderon, M. Scopello éds., Paris, Beauchesne, 2011. * ''La mystique théorétique et théurgique dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine'', S. Mimouni et M. Scopello éds., Turnhout, Brepols, 2016.

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scopello, Madeleine 1953 births Living people Academics from Turin Academics from Paris Italian emigrants to France French women historians French historians of religion 21st-century women academics University of Turin alumni Paris-Sorbonne University alumni Historians of Gnosticism Scholars of Manichaeism Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research