Jean-Baptiste Glaire

Jean-Baptiste Glaire (1 April 1798 – 25 February 1879) was a French Catholic priest, Hebraist, and Biblical scholar.

Biography Glaire was born at Bordeaux. Having completed a course of serious study at Bordeaux, he went to the seminary of Saint-Sulpice at Paris, the courses of which he followed simultaneously with those of Semitic languages at the Sorbonne. After his ordination to priesthood, in 1822, he began to teach Hebrew at the seminary of Saint-Sulpice.

In 1825 Glaire was made assistant to the Abbé Chaunac de Lanzac, professor of Hebrew at the Sorbonne, and succeeded him as lecturer in 1831. He was professor of Sacred Scripture in 1836, became dean of the faculty in 1841, and retired in 1851. He died at Issy, near Paris.

Works His numerous works are out of print, and largely obsolete.

The following are his chief publications.

On semitic languages , Paris, 1830 (correction of the Lexicon of Gesenius) , Paris, 1832 and 1843 , Paris, 1850 , Paris, 1861

On the Bible , Paris, 1836, several times re-edited; he summarized it in his etc., Paris, 1846, which also went through several editions , Paris, 1845. The portion of his work which endures consists of his translations of the Bible , Paris, 1834 , Hebrew text with translation and annotations , Paris, 1871-1873, an exact but too literal version; the translation of the New Testament, also frequently published separately, was specially examined and approved at Rome. Glaire's translation was inserted in the of Fulcran Vigouroux, Paris, 1889-1890. With Viscount Walsh, Glaire edited the (Paris, 1854—), to which he contributed a number of articles.