Jean Carmignac

Abbé Jean Carmignac was a French biblical scholar who founded the journal Revue de Qumran in 1958. He achieved distinction also by publishing early on, with colleagues P. Guilbert, É Cothennet, and H. Lignée, two volumes of translation and commentary on the major scrolls. After his death a special edition of Revue de Qumran was prepared in his honor. Carmignac was also the author of The Birth of the Synoptics.