Anne Boud'hors

{{Short description|French Egyptologist, Coptologist and philologist}}

{{Infobox academic|birth_date=28 October 1958|discipline=Egyptology
Coptology|main_interests=Coptic biblical translations|work_institutions=French National Centre for Scientific Research|alma_mater=École normale supérieure|awards=Ordre national du mérite}}

Anne Boud'hors (born 28 October 1958) is a French Egyptologist, Coptologist, and philologist. A research director at CNRS, she is a specialist in Coptic biblical translations, particularly the Gospel of John.

Biography

Boud'hors was born on 28 October 1958.{{Cite web |title=PUSC catalog › Entry Personal Name |url=https://catalogo.pusc.it/cgi-bin/koha/opac-authoritiesdetail.pl?marc=1&authid=10219 |access-date=2024-03-05 |website=catalogo.pusc.it |archive-date=2024-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309135502/https://catalogo.pusc.it/cgi-bin/koha/opac-authoritiesdetail.pl?marc=1&authid=10219 |url-status=live }} Anne Boud'hors studied classics at the École normale supérieure{{Cite web |title=Anne BOUD'HORS |url=https://transperse.hypotheses.org/membres/anne-boudhors |access-date=2024-03-05 |website=TransPerse |language=fr-FR |archive-date=2024-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309135514/https://transperse.hypotheses.org/membres/anne-boudhors |url-status=live }} and obtained her grammar agrégation after completing a doctorate.{{Cite web |title=Anne Boud'hors |url=https://www.irht.cnrs.fr/fr/annuaire/boud-hors-anne |access-date=2024-03-05 |website=IRHT - CNRS |language=fr |archive-date=2023-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922222835/https://www.irht.cnrs.fr/fr/annuaire/boud-hors-anne |url-status=live }} She attended the Greek philology classes of Jean Irigoin, where she encountered a young Philippe Hoffmann.{{Cite journal |last=Irigoin |first=Jean |date=1985 |title=Philologie grecque |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/ephe_0000-0001_1981_num_2_1_6785 |journal=Annuaires de l'École pratique des hautes études |volume=114 |issue=2 |pages=73–74 |access-date=2024-03-05 |archive-date=2022-06-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220618173015/https://www.persee.fr/doc/ephe_0000-0001_1981_num_2_1_6785 |url-status=live }}

As a research director at CNRS,{{Citation |title=Décret du 30 novembre 2019 portant promotion et nomination |url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000039440044 |access-date=2024-03-06 |archive-date=2023-10-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031111156/https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000039440044/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=2017-07-02 |title=Frangué, moine d'Égypte du VIIIe siècle avec Anne Boud'hors |url=https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/chretiens-d-orient/frangue-moine-d-egypte-du-viiie-siecle-avec-anne-boud-hors-1056870 |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=France Culture |language=fr |archive-date=2022-12-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206043257/https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/chretiens-d-orient/frangue-moine-d-egypte-du-viiie-siecle-avec-anne-boud-hors-1056870 |url-status=live }}{{cite book |date=2020 |first1=Vanessa |first2=Dimitri |isbn=978-0-19-060465-3 |last1=Davies |last2=Laboury |publisher=Oxford University Press |title=The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography}} she dedicated herself to the study of the Coptic language and civilization.{{Cite news |date=2017-04-28 |title=La Bible des coptes, naissance de l'Égypte chrétienne |url=https://www.la-croix.com/Religion/Catholicisme/Monde/La-Bible-coptes-naissance-lEgypte-chretienne-2017-04-28-1200843267 |access-date=2024-03-06 |work=La Croix |language=fr-FR |issn=0242-6056 |archive-date=2023-09-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230921225231/https://www.la-croix.com/Religion/Catholicisme/Monde/La-Bible-coptes-naissance-lEgypte-chretienne-2017-04-28-1200843267 |url-status=live }} In collaboration with Éléonore Cellard, François Déroche, and Catherine Louis, she explored Coptic texts related to the birth of Islam.{{Cite web |date=2018-05-09 |title=Des passages de la Bible découverts sur un manuscrit coranique |url=https://www.lavie.fr/actualite/societe/des-passages-de-la-bible-decouverts-sur-un-manuscrit-coraniquenbsp-7712.php |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=La Vie.fr |language=fr-FR |archive-date=2023-05-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518065838/https://www.lavie.fr/actualite/societe/des-passages-de-la-bible-decouverts-sur-un-manuscrit-coraniquenbsp-7712.php |url-status=live }} Among other topics, she specialized in the figure of Timothy II.{{Cite journal |last=Suciu |first=Alin |date=2013 |title="Me, This Wretched Sinner": A Coptic Fragment from the Vision of Theophilus Concerning the Flight of the Holy Family to Egypt |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42003516 |journal=Vigiliae Christianae |volume=67 |issue=4 |pages=436–450 |doi=10.1163/15700720-12341130 |jstor=42003516 |issn=0042-6032 |access-date=2024-03-06 |archive-date=2024-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309135623/https://www.jstor.org/stable/42003516 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }} The researcher edits and translates certain texts from the Louvre collections.{{Cite journal |last=Papaconstantinou |first=Arietta |date=2016-07-24 |title=From Bāwīṭ to Marw: Documents from the Medieval Muslim World, edited by Andreas Kaplony, Daniel Potthast, and Cornelia Römer |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/jre/9/2-3/article-p294_14.xml |journal=Journal of Religion in Europe |volume=9 |issue=2–3 |pages=294–296 |doi=10.1163/18748929-00902014 |issn=1874-8910 |access-date=2024-03-06 |archive-date=2024-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309135455/https://brill.com/view/journals/jre/9/2-3/article-p294_14.xml |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }} She was involved, notably, with a Parisian antiquarian to facilitate the publication of a manuscript, and her negotiations lead to the successful publication of the text.{{Citation |last=Richter |first=Sebastian |title=Changing Money and Shifting Languages in Fatimid Egypt: A Late-Coptic Account Book from the Papers of Noël (Aimé-)Giron |date=2017-01-01 |work=New Frontiers of Arabic Papyrology |pages=41–52 |url=https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004345171/B9789004345171_004.xml |access-date=2024-03-06 |publisher=Brill |language=en |isbn=978-90-04-34517-1 |archive-date=2024-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309135624/https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004345171/B9789004345171_004.xml |url-status=live }}

Together with her colleague Nathalie Bosson, she undertook the coordination of Coptic studies and, in 2004, publishes the Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Coptic Studies.{{Cite journal |last1=Crégheur |first1=Eric |last2=Bédard |first2=Francis |last3=Cazelais |first3=Serge |last4=Chantal |first4=Marie |last5=Dîncă |first5=Lucian |last6=Johnston |first6=Steve |last7=Lefebvre |first7=Arianne |last8=Painchaud |first8=Louis |last9=Poirier |first9=Paul-Hubert |date=2009 |title=Littérature et histoire du christianisme ancien |url=http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/037944ar |journal=Laval théologique et philosophique |language=fr |volume=65 |issue=1 |pages=121 |doi=10.7202/037944ar |issn=0023-9054|url-access=subscription }} This effort continued with other new editions of congresses, such as the fourteenth in 2016.{{Cite book |last1=Boud'hors |first1=Anne |title=Études coptes |last2=Louis |first2=Catherine |date=2016 |publisher=Éditions de Boccard |others=Journée d'études coptes |isbn=978-2-7018-0446-0 |series=Cahiers de la bibliothèque copte |location=Paris}} Boud'hors is one of the world specialists in Coptic biblical translations, particularly the Gospel of John.{{cite book |date=2012 |first1=Christian |isbn=978-3-11-028143-9 |last1=Askeland |publisher=De Gruyter |series=Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung |title=John's Gospel: the Coptic translations of its Greek text}}

In November 2019, she was appointed a knight of the Ordre national du mérite.

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