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Called to Paris in 1640 to assist Gay-Michel Le Jay in the preparation of his Polyglot Bible , he contributed to that work the Arabic and Latin versions of the Book Of Ruth and the Arabic version of the Third Book Of Maccabees . In 1646 he was appointed professor of Syriac and Arabic at the Collège De France . Being invited by the Congregation of the Propaganda to take part in the preparation of an Arabic version of the Bible, Ecchellensis went again in 1652 or 1653 to Rome. He published several Latin translations of Arabic works, of which the most important was the ''Chronicon Orientale of Ibnar-Rahib'' (Paris, 1653), a history of the patriarchs of Alexandria . He was engaged in an interesting controversy with John Selden as to the historical grounds of episcopacy, in the course of which he published his ''Eutychius vindicatus, sive Responsio ad Seldeni Origines'' (Rome, 1661). Conjointly with Giovanni Borelli he wrote a Latin translation of the 5th, 6th and 7th books of the ''Conics'' of Apollonius Of Perga (1661). He died at Rome in 1664. REFERENCES |
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