ABSTRACT
Born in France, Augustin Rodet studied Arabic in Algeria, then joined the Jesuit mission in Syria. He headed a school in Ghazir in 1868, before being transferred to Beirut. He contributed to the translation of the Bible from Hebrew and Greek into Arabic with Ibrahim al-Yaziji. In 1872, Ibrahim al-Yaziji was invited by the Jesuit mission in Syria to join the Bible translation project, for which he studied Syriac and Hebrew. Like its Protestant predecessor, this translation was a joint enterprise between European missionaries and local scholars. The main collaborators included Augustin Rodet, a French Jesuit priest who worked and died in Syria, and Ibrahim al-Yaziji, son of the same Nasif who contributed to the Protestant translation, a well-known scholar and a teacher at the Jesuit College.
