Émile Puech, Dr Dr (1992) in Theology at the Institut Catholique de Paris and in History of Religions and Religious Anthropology at the Sorbonne Paris IV, Hab. (2001) at Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg II is Director of Research at the French National Center for Scientific Research, LESA UMR 8167, Collège de France, Paris, and Professor of Epigraphy, Semitic languages and Dead Sea Scrolls at the École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem.He has published the Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts of Starcky's lot (Cave 4) and many researches on West Semitic Epigraphy and related subjects.