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{{Short description|Swiss coptologist (1927–2013)}}
[[File:RodolpheKasser.jpg|thumb|right|Rodolphe Kasser 2007]]
'''Rodolphe Kasser''' (14 January 1927 – 8 October 2013),<ref>[http://www.associationciras.fr/2013/10/15/revue-de-presse-15-octobre-2013 CIRAS (Centre Interdisciplinaire des Recherches archéologiques de la Somme)]</ref> was a Swiss [[philologist]], archaeologist, and a Coptic scholar. He
== Biography ==
Born in [[Yverdon-les-Bains|Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland]], Kasser obtained his higher education in theology in Lausanne and in Paris from 1946 to 1950 and a diploma from the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Ph.D. equivalent) in Paris in 1964.<ref name="natgeo">{{cite web|title=Profiles|url=http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lostgospel/Rodolphe_Kasser.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060420004738/http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/lostgospel/Rodolphe_Kasser.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 20, 2006|work=nationalgeographic.com|publisher=National Geographic|accessdate=15 October 2010}}</ref> He conducted pastoral ministry in Switzerland and in France from 1953 to 1959.
From 1963 to 1998, he was on the staff at the Faculty of Arts of the [[University of Geneva]], lecturing in Coptic languages and literature. First as professor extraordinary from 1963 to 1976, then as professor from 1976 to 1998. After 1965, he was the head of the archaeological excavations of the Swiss Mission of Coptic Archaeology in the Kellia, Lower Egypt.
After 1962, Kasser did important research in the field of Coptic philology, including the preparation of a new Coptic dictionary. This work was done in parallel with reforms in Coptic dialectal classification. He published several important Greek and Coptic codices of the Bodmeriana Library, most of them biblical.
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== External links ==
*[https://archive.today/20140410041329/http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=107&sid=6614457&cKey=1144427255000 Kasser's s translation shows Judas in a positive light]
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