La Bible d'Alexandrie
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La Bible d'Alexandrie is a collection of fresh translations and commentaries in French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 devoted to the Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

 Old Testament
Old Testament
The Old Testament, of which Christians hold different views, is a Christian term for the religious writings of ancient Israel held sacred and inspired by Christians which overlaps with the 24-book canon of the Masoretic Text of Judaism...

, the Septuagint. The first volume, devoted to Genesis, was edited by Marguerite Harl
Marguerite Harl
Marguerite Harl was a pupil of Henri-Irénée Marrou and is a contemporary French scholar working in the Septuagint, Philo of Alexandria and early patristic writers such as Clement of Alexandria and Origen.-Bibliography:...

 in 1986. Since then another sixteen volumes have appeared, and several others await publication. The series is edited by the French publishing house, Editions du Cerf
Editions du Cerf
Éditions du Cerf is a French publishing house specializing in religious books. It was founded in 1929, and operated by the Dominican Order.The name is a reference to Psalm 42 :...

.

In some respects the series responds to the earlier publication by the same publisher of the works of Philo of Alexandria.

The title strictly refers to the Pentateuch only, but has been extended to the whole of the Septuagint for the purposes of this edition, which is being prepared by a team of French scholars.

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