French researcher and research director
Madeleine Scopello (born 4 November 1953 in Turin, Italy) is a French historian of religion. She is director of research at the CNRS (UMR 8167 "Orient et Méditerranée", Classical and Late Antiquity, Paris-Sorbonne) and director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études (chair of Gnosticism and Manichaeism). She also teaches at the Institut catholique de Paris, Faculty of History (History of Ancient Christianity).
Education.
Madeleine Scopello holds a doctorate in literature from the University of Turin, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy (thesis on the history of Christianity, graduated "magna cum laude" in 1977) and a habilitation, obtained in 2006 at Paris-Sorbonne University.
Research.
As a historian of Late Antique religions, Madeleine Scopello is a specialist in Gnosticism and Manichaeism, working on both primary and secondary literature of Coptic, Greek, and Latin texts. She also works on religious doctrine, history and society, and studies on women. Her research also focuses on Jewish and mystical literature, patristic texts, Christian apocrypha and religious polemic literature.
In 2006, she organized the first international colloquium on the Coptic Gospel of Judas (October 27–28, 2006, proceedings published under her direction in 2008). She also co-organized "Les forces du bien et du mal dans les premiers siècles de l'Église" (Université de Tours, 11-13/09/2008), with B. Pouderon and Y.M. Blanchard and "Les textes de Nag Hammadi: Histoire des religions et approches contemporaines" (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 11-12/12/2008), with J.-P. Mahé and P.-H. Poirier. In 2014, she organized the international colloquium "Les femmes dans le manichéisme occidental et oriental", Université Paris-Sorbonne, Maison de la Recherche (27-28/06/2014).
Editorial work.
Scopello is a member of the editorial boards of:
She is also the director of the "Religions in History" series by Presses Universitaires Paris-Sorbonne (PUPS), which was started in 2006.
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