Jean-Baptiste Glaire

Biography

Works

• Lexicon manuale hebraicum et chaldaicum, Paris, 1830 ;
• Principes de grammaire hébraïque et chaldaïque, Paris, 1832 and 1843;
• Manuel de l'hébraïsant, Paris, 1850;
• Principes de grammaire arabe, Paris, 1861. On Holy Scripture:
• Introduction historique et critique aux livres de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament, Paris, 1836, several times re-edited; he summarized it in his Abrégé d'introduction etc., Paris, 1846, which also went through several editions;
• Les Livres saints vengés, ou la vérité historique et divine de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament, Paris, 1845. The portion of his work which endures consists of his translations of the Bible:
• La sainte Bible en latin et en français, Paris, 1834;
• Torah Mosché, le Pentateuque, Hebrew text with translation and annotations;
• La sainte Bible selon la Vulgate, 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 Bible polyglotte of Fulcran Vigouroux, Paris, 1889-1890. With Viscount Walsh, Glaire edited the
• Encyclopédie catholique, to which he contributed a number of articles.