Facts:   - alt: jean carmignac    - caption: jean carmignac    - death date: 1986      - birth date: 1914    - name: jean carmignac    - nationality: french    - image: jean carmignac.jpeg    - occupation: biblical scholar   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of jean carmignac .
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abbé jean carmignac -lrb- 1914 -- 1986 -rrb- was a french biblical scholar who founded `` revue de qumran '' in 1958 .the jean carmignac association `` the gospels are historical documents , almost news reports , given first hand . ''`` i got used to the hebrew used at the time of christ in studying the dead sea scrolls .and very naturally , i recognized transparently in the greek of st. mark this same hebraic language , which was simply transposed into greek the technical research arrived at proofs which seem decisive and which apply equally to the gospel of matthew and to the documents used by st. luke '' but then the consequences and the conclusions go very far : the gospels were therefore composed a lot earlier than is usually said .they are a lot closer to the facts .they have a historical value of the first order .they contain the testimonies of the disciples who followed and heard jesus .`` these scientific arguments should strengthen the christians and draw the attention of the unbelievers .but they disturb the dominant theories and thus they will be bitterly criticized .so as to present publicly only irrefutable demonstrations , for twenty years i was engaged in meticulous research , which was set forth in large technical books .but i was asked to not just think of specialists , and to make known to the wider public the results of these twenty years of work .that 's why i wrote a little book : the birth of the synoptic gospels * only pointing out the principal proofs and what flows logically from them .ed .f.-x .de guibert , paris 1984 the future of christianity is founded on the question of truth `` cooperator of the truth '' : i chose this phrase from the third letter of st. john as an episcopal motto because in our present world the question of truth has almost disappeared , and because if that disappears , everything disappears .-lrb- cardinal joseph ratzinger -rrb- remember what jean carmignac has said above : ... '' strengthening the faith of the christians and drawing the...