Michael Langlois

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.

A month from today will begin the 55th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (RAI), which will take place at the Collège de France on July 6-9, 2009 with the following theme: “Family in the Ancient Near East: Realities, Symbolisms, and Images.”

On this occasion, we have put online a website that I set up at the following address: rai.digitorient.com. There you will find useful information and be able to register online for the Rencontre. See you soon in Paris!

I will attend the Hebrew Bible and Dead Sea Scrolls One Day Conference at King’s College London on Thursday, May 14, 2009.

Here is the program, including my paper on the Fallen Angels’ Names in the Aramaic Book of Enoch:

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The Young Hero. Research on the formation and diffusion of a literary theme in the Ancient Near East.

April 6–7, 2009

This interdisciplinary conference, organized by the Chairs of Assyriology and Biblical Milieux at the College of France, explores heroic and initiatic journeys related to royalty, exile, failure, and success. It will also look at the ambivalent status of the hero, who navigates between the world of gods and the world of men. The conference will establish a dialog between themes and figures of Mesopotamia, Syria (Mari, Ugarit), the biblical world, and Greece.

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