Eleonore Cellard

Eleonore Cellard
Eleonore Cellard
Academic background
Alma mater	INALCO (BA, MA, PhD); École normale supérieure (BA); Catholic University of Paris (BA);
Academic work
Discipline	Arabic studies
Sub-discipline	Quranic studies; Codicology; Arabic palaeography;

Eléonore Cellard is a French scholar who specializes in Arabic palaeography and codicology, particularly Quranic manuscripts.^[1] She started her research on the Quran in 2008. To do so, she learned the Arabic language and studied Arabic literature. She is a post-doctoral fellow at the Collège de France.^[2]

She discovered evidence of Coptic "lower text" (erased text) on a palimpsest page whose upper text was a page of an 8th century Quranic manuscript in Arabic. The Coptic writing was determined to be a portion of the biblical Book of Deuteronomy.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Flood, Alison (2018-04-25). "Passages from the Bible discovered behind Qur'an manuscript". The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
^ Scarsi, Alice (2018-04-25). "'Extraordinary' manuscript shows Bible words ERASED to make room for Qur'an text". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-01-07.

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[:0-1] Flood, Alison (2018-04-25). "Passages from the Bible discovered behind Qur'an manuscript". The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-02-19.

[2] Scarsi, Alice (2018-04-25). "'Extraordinary' manuscript shows Bible words ERASED to make room for Qur'an text". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-01-07.

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