Rémi Gounelle


Rémi Gounelle is a French protestant theologian, a professor of history of early Christianity at the and dean of that same faculty since 2010.

Biography

Rémi Gounelle holds a doctorate from the École pratique des hautes études, section of Religious Sciences, and a doctorate in theology from the Lausanne University. He was awarded the Prix Paul Chapuis-Secretan. He is the nephew of André Gounelle, Protestant theologian and professor emeritus at the. He is also related to pastor and Michel Hollard, a member of the French resistance.
Rémi Gounelle is holder of an habilitation. In 2003–2004, he was a lecturer in the Faculty of Theology of the University of Neuchâtel and scientific collaborator of the Romand Institute of Biblical Studies.

Research topics

Rémi Gounelle's research interests include the Acts of Pilatius and the "cycle of Pilate", the Latin narratives of Christ's descent into hell, the formation of the canonical Scriptures and the statutes of the Biblical apocrypha, as well as the homilies by Eusebius of Alexandria and the Syrian-Palestinian literature of the fourth and fifth centuries, among others Cyril of Jerusalem and Eusebius of Emesa.

Publications

Books

  • 1997: L'Évangile de Nicodème ou les Actes faits sous Ponce Pilate , followed by La Lettre de Pilate à l'empereur Claude. Introduction and notes by Rémi Gounelle and Zbigniew Izydorczyk. Translation by R. Gounelle from a text developed by Z. Izydorczyk, Turnhout, Brepols
  • 2000: La Descente du Christ aux enfers. Institutionnalisation d'une croyance, Paris, Institut d'études augustiniennes
  • 2008: Les Recensions byzantines de l'Évangile de Nicodème, Turnhout - Prahins, Brepols - éditions du Zèbre

Direction of books

  • 2004: La Descente du Christ aux enfers, Paris, Éditions du Cerf
  • 2007: : Poussières de christianisme et de judaïsme antiques. Studies gathered in honour of Jean-Daniel Kaestli and Éric Junod, Prahins, Éditions du Zèbre
  • 2008: : Le Décalogue, Paris, Cerf
  • 2008: : Le Décalogue au miroir des Pères, Strasbourg, Université Marc Bloch
  • 2009: Lire dans le texte les apocryphes chrétiens, Paris, Cerf
  • 2014: : La Bible juive dans l’Antiquité, Prahins, éditions du Zèbre
  • 2015: : La Littérature apocryphe chrétienne et les Écritures juives, Prahins, éditions du Zèbre

Collective works

Christologie entre dogmes, doutes et remises en question, ed. Van Dieren