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Athanasios Chastoupis (Stemnitsa Arkadia, 1921 - January 18, 1993) was a distinguished Greek Professor of Theology, that served as the Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Short Biography
He was born in 1921 in Stemnitsa, Arcadia in Greece. He studied Theology, Greek and Latin Literature, as well as Philosophy at the University of Athens. After completing his undergraduate studies, he moved to the United States of America to continue his education focusing on Semitic, pre-Christian Eastern and classical cultures at the Garrett Bible Institute in Chicago. Upon the completion of that program he pursued his doctoral studies on Biblical Jewish Ology at the University of Northwestern, where he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Theology from Northwestern University in 1951.

In 1952, he returned to Greece to teach Jewish Language and Old Testament Interpretation of Original Text and Jewish Archaeology at the Theological School of the University of Athens. A year later, he was appointed associate professor of Theology at Aristotle's University of Thessaloniki, focusing on The Introduction and Interpretation of the Old Testament by the Original Script of the Old Testament and interpretation of O'.

In 1970, he also served as the Secretary of Religious Affairs in the Hellenic Ministry of Education.

Athanasios Chastoupis passed away in Athens on January 18,1993.

Research Interests
Chastoupi’s research interests can be categorized into the following main sections: Introduction to Biblical Texts, Comparative Analysis on Biblical Research and Research on Hungarian Texts.

Publication Themes: Scholarly Work


 * The Septuagint Text of the Book of Jeremiah (1950)
 * The Foreign Influences on the Old Testament Conception of the Kingdom of God (1950)
 * The Ras Shamra (Arch. Ugarit) archaeological finds. The importance of and towards the PD their relationship (1951, Ph.D.)
 * The Philological Problem of the Book of Jeremiah (1952)
 * Old Testament: translation of O΄ - translation of a corrected Hebrew (1954)
 * The Old Testament in relation to Archeology (1957)
 * Manuscripts of the Dead Sea in relation to the Holy Bible (1958)
 * Conceptual and Critical Declaration of the Linguistic Characteristics of Amos (1960)
 * Pirke Abbott (Fathers Capital) (1961)
 * Conceptual and Critical Clarification of the Linguistic Characteristics of the Mourners (1964, 1976)
 * The Book of Michael. Translation from the Hebrew Original After Critical Restoration (1969)
 * The essence of religion, evaluated on the basis of testimonies from sacred texts (1971,1977)
 * Studying quotes in the Old Testament (1973)
 * Introductions to each of the Old Testament books (1974)
 * Ugaritic Religious Texts (1972-1975, 1986)
 * Amos - Michael, Mourners and Ecclesiastes. Original translation after critical restoration (1978)
 * The Book of Avacum. Introduction, text, interpretation (1978, 1987)
 * The book of Amos. Introduction, text, interpretation (1979, 1986)
 * Teaching Judaism (1979)
 * Introduction to the Old Testament (1981)

Scientific Articles

 * "Character of the Alexandrian Translation of the Book of Mourners" (University of Athens Theological Seminary, 1961)
 * "The Jewish Prayer" (Nea Zion 71, 1979)
 * "Madras" (ECHR 24, 1979-1980)
 * Philosophical Secretariat of Judaism of the Middle Ages" (ECHR 24, 1979-80)
 * The Middle Ages Judaic Secretariat of Judaism" (Vol. Spiritual Collection, 1981)
 * "Talmud" (ECHR 25, 1981)
 * "History of Judaism" (ECHR 25, 1981)
 * "The Church's Religion" (Theology 54, 1983)
 * "Judaeo-Christian Dialogue" (Theology 55, 1984)
 * "Solomon's Oaks" (Theology 55, 1984)
 * "Prism" (Theology 56, 1985)

Awards
For his contribution to the advancement of scientific knowledge and pioneering work, he received the following awards:


 * The Cross of the Phoenician Commander.
 * The Cross of Order George I
 * The First Order Cross of the Ecumenical Patriarch, Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople,
 * The First Order Cross of the Patriarchate of Alexandria
 * The Cross of Saint Vladimir of the Patriarchate of Russia.
 * The Golden Cross of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
 * The Sinai's Cross.