Michael Langlois

I have been invited to join the Enoch Seminar, an academic group of international specialists in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins:

As a specialist in Second Temple Judaism, you have been nominated, and are warmly invited, to join the Enoch Seminar: www.enochseminar.org Your bio-bibliographical entry has been already added to “4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism”

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Dariusz Długosz published a review of my book, Le premier manuscrit du Livre d’Hénoch, in The Qumran Chronicle. He concludes that:

Thanks to Michael Langlois’ research, a new direction for the study of Qumran manuscripts has been traced, both for the fragments’ material analysis and their interpretation.

Here is the whole review in PDF format:

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“Religions & Histoire” magazine talks about our Qumran Library project, whose first volume was published a few months ago.

According to the author, Philippe de Beauvillé, “this scientifical, didactical and cultural edition is demanding, but exciting for both a large andience and scholars.” This was indeed our objective, and I’m glad to hear that it was achieved!

You can read the article here:
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New TV magazine Mag Bible, which was aired on France 2 on Sunday, April 5, 2009 at 10:00 AM, features a documentary on Pontius Pilate, a Roman procurator in Judea’s at the time of Jesus-Christ.

On this occasion, I was interviewed by Roland Portiche in order to discuss historical sources dealing with Pilate (notably Philo of Alexandria and Josephus Flavius).

You can watch the 4-minute documentary here:

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I was interviewed by French Magazine Littéraire (in English: “Literature Magazine”) in its June 2009 issue (number 487). You can read here the “Work in progress” column (p. 21) written by Lauren Malka:

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