Michael Langlois

“Men and Women”: this is the theme that has been chosen for the Interdisciplinary Days which will take place on March 4-5, 2010 at the University of Strasbourg’s Faculty of Protestant Theology.

My colleague Frédéric Rognon and I will lead the first workshop entitled “the eternal feminine et and the eternal masculine.” Beware: we’ve adopted an offbeat style, with lots of humour and suprises…

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For the first time in its history, the National Library of France will host an exhibition on the Dead Sea Scrolls! This unprecedented event will take place on April 13 – July 11, 2010, and has been entitled Qumran: Uncovering the Dead Sea Scrolls. Hang on!

The National Library asked me to serve as their Scientific Advisor for this exhibition, which I accepted with great pleasure. Moreover, I will share with Laurent Héricher (oriental manuscripts curator) the Direction of Publication related to this exhibition. More on that later…

Please visit the National Library’s website for more information (such as opening hours, price, access…).

The “Bible, Heritage of Mankind” exhibition will be inaugurated at UNESCO on February 8-12, 2010!

I had the pleasure to help with this project as a specialist of the Bible and the Biblical World.

To find out more about the inauguration program (including an artistic gala!), please visit the exhibition website.

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The Third International Conference on Christian Apocryphal Literature will take place on January 14-16, 2010, at the University of Strasbourg. Its theme is: “Christian Apocryphal Literature and Jewish Scriptures“.

The program is very rich, with dozens of papers and conferences. It is available below in PDF format:

Christian Apocryphal Literature and Jewish Scriptures

I will be attending the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) 2009 international meeting, which is taking place in Rome on June 30 - July 4. The program is available here.