Michael Langlois

André Paul wrote a review of my book, Le premier manuscrit du Livre d’Hénoch, in Recherches de Science Religieuse 98/1 (2010), 116-117. His first words are:

Le tout jeune universitaire Michaël LANGLOIS a réalisé un coup de maître avec sa thèse sur les textes araméens d’Hénoch retrouvés à Qumrân, plus précisément les fragments du premier manuscrit, 4Q201. Sa démarche est inédite et non moins solide. Dans une synergie admirable, il a su mettre à profit sa quadruple et riche formation, de scientifique informaticien, de théologien exégète, de linguiste philologue et d’épigraphiste paléographe.

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On the occasion of the Qumran exhibition at the National Library of France, I was interviewed by Journalist Alain Guyot from daily newspaper “Ouest France“.

The article was published on the fourth cover page on April 14, 2010; you can read it all in PDF format below. I warmly thank Alain Guyot for the quality of his work!
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French magazine Point de Vue dedicates four pages to the Dead Sea Scrolls! Journalist Pauline Sommelet came to the National Library and interviewed Laurent Héricher and myself. Here is how she begins her article:

Held between two glass plates, the stamp-sized manuscripts look like a collection of strange butterflies with irregular outlines. It takes a lot of imagination to realize that these paper coleoptera are in fact the oldest Bible manuscripts having reached us. The famous Qumran scrolls, accidentally found in the 1950s by Bedouins on the site of ancient Gomorrah, by the Dead Sea, are the greatest archaeological discovery of the twentieth century.

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On the occasion of the Qumran exhibition at the National Library of France, French newspaper “La Croix” dedicates three pages to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Journalist Claire Lesegretain interviewed our team, and concludes her first article with the following words:

“Today, we question the number of texts initially considered sectarian,” Katell Berthelot concludes, wishing that scholars, who now have access to all manuscripts, “re-examine theories in light of everything.” Research is now being made on the calendar system, as well as liturgical and wisdom texts. Indeed, as Michael Langlois, another representative of this new generation of French-speaking Qumran scholars, says, “what seemed clear yesterday no longer is today.”

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French newspaper “Le Figaro” talks about the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition at the National Library. Journalist Claire Bommelaer concludes that

the scrolls exhibition, set in a historical context, deserves attention. If not for religious reasons, at least for aesthetical reasons: Philippe Maffre’s scenography, ocher and black, enhanced by huge plexiglass fragments hung from the roof, enables the visitor to feel part of the emotion felt by archaeologists sixty years ago.

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