Jean Margain

Jean Margain (24 February 1931 - 15 February 2012 ) was a French Hebraist. He is known by his Semitic and Samaritan studies.

Education
Margain got his Doctor of Arts in 1988 with his thesis Les particules dans le Targum samaritain de Genèse-Exode: jalons pour une histoire de l'araméen samaritain at Université Paris III.

Academic work
He was Director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and president of the Sessions de langues bibliques (in 1988). He also was Director of studies at École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), and Chair of Biblical and Targoumic Philology, from 1991 to 1996.

Selected works

 * Le livre de Daniel: commentaire philologique du texte araméen. Beauchesne, Paris 1994. ISBN 2-7010-1318-6
 * Le livre de Daniel: commentaire philologique du texte araméen. Beauchesne, Paris 1994. ISBN 2-7010-1318-6