Dominique Barthélemy

Jean-Dominique Barthélemy OP (16 May 1921, Pallet — 10 February 2002, Freiburg), was a emeritus French professor, Dominican priest and biblical scholar. He entered orders in 1940 and was ordained priest in 1947.

It was at the French Biblical and Archaeological School of Jerusalem that he began to work as a university teacher and researcher.

From 1957 to 1991 he then became Professor of Old Testament at the Theological Faculty University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and from 1964 to 1965 he was dean of the Theology Faculty. During the years 1969-1980, he served on the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project committee, "research[ing] the pertinent history of exegesis of each [Hebrew Bible text critical] problem up to the modern critical period."

He is also known for his introductory book to reading the Bible, Dieu et son image ("God and his image").