Marie-Pierre Bussières
Associate Professor, Department of Classics and Religious Studies
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.
Office: ARTS 018
Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 1335
E-mail: mbussier@uOttawa.ca
Dr. Bussières is currently preparing a critical edition of an anonymous exegetical collection, the Questions on the Old and New Testament, dating from the end of the 4th century CE. Working on this text also implies studying the Trinitarian controversies of the time, the definition of collections of questions and answers as a literary genre, and the method of the commentary in Late Antiquity.
Simultaneously, Dr. Bussières is participating in a project to translate Servius Honoratus’ commentary (late 4th-early 5th century) on Vergil’s Aeneid into French. The project is directed by Dr. Alban Baudou, Université Laval.
She is also taking part in the new translation of the Missale Romanum based on the latest edition (2002), for the Conférence des Évêques Francophones pour la Traduction de la Liturgie commissioned by the Vatican.
University degrees
2000 - PhD, Université de Paris IV Sorbonne
1995 - MA, Université Laval
1993 - BA, Université Laval
Fields of interest
- Late Antique and Christian Latin Literature
Courses taught
- CLA2504 L’empire romain
- CLA3510 Thèmes choisis en histoire romaine
- CLA3530 Thèmes choisis en littérature ancienne
- CLA5923 Topics in Late Antique Literature
- CLA5122 Topics in Latin Palaeography
- LCL1101 Latin I
- LCL1102 Latin II
- LCL1501 Latin I
- LCL1502 Latin II
- LCL2500 Latin III
- LCL3500 Extraits d’auteurs latins
- LCL4100 Latin Authors
- LCL4500 Auteurs latin
Publications
« Le commentaire au 4e s. ou, pour reformuler le dicton, ancienneté a-t-elle toujours autorité ? », dans L. DiTommaso et L. Turcescu, The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Late Antiquity. Proceedings of the Montréal Colloquium in Honour of Charles Kannengiesser, 11-13 October 2006, Leyde, Brill (The Bible in Ancient Christianity), p. 83-99 (sous presse)
Ambrosiaster. Contre les païens. Sur le destin, édition, traduction et notes. Paris, Cerf (Sources chrétiennes 512) (2007).
« Le public des Questions sur l’Ancien et le Nouveau Testament de l’Ambrosiaster », Annali di Storia dell’ esegesi, 24 (2007) 161-180.
« L’influence du synode tenu à Rome en 382 sur l’exégèse de l’Ambrosiaster », Sacris Erudiri 45 (2006) 107-124.
« Was Heracleon a Valentinian? A New Look at Old Sources », Harvard Theological Review 99 (2006) 163-178 (with M. Kaler).
« The Coptic Apocalypse of Paul, Irenaeus’ Adversus Haereses 2.30.7, and the Second-Century Battle for Paul’s Legacy », Journal of Early Christian Studies, 12 (2004), p. 173-193 (en collaboration avec Michael Kaler, Louis Painchaud).
« Conclusions : questions (encore) sans réponses », in A. Volgers et C. Zamagni (éd.), Erotapokriseis : Early Question and Answer Literature in Context, Contributions to Biblical Exegesis 37, Louvain, Peeters, 2004, p. 181-189.
« Les quaestiones 114 et 115 de l’Ambrosiaster ont-ellesété influencées par l’apologétique de Tertullien? », Revue des Études Augustiniennes, 48,2 (2002), p. 101-130.
