Alain Le Boulluec

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Alain Le Boulluec (born 1941) [1] is a contemporary French patristics scholar working mainly in the sphere of Clement of Alexandria and of Origen of Alexandria.

Le Boulluec is the Director Emeritus of Studies of the École pratique des hautes études in Paris, part of the University of Paris. His studies have also focused on heresy and on the Neo-Chalcedonian movement which developed in theology during the reign of the Emperor Justinian (527-565 AD).

Among his publications Le Boulluec has edited Clément d'Alexandrie, Stromates V and VII in the Sources Chrétiennes collection (nos.278,279,428). He is also a contributor to the la Bible d'Alexandrie , a translation of the Septuagint.

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  1. "Alain Le Boulluec". Les Édition du cerf. Retrieved 6 November 2012.

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