Michael Langlois

Samson, David, Daniel or Gilgamesh are some of the most famous heroes in biblical and mesopotamian literature. These characters are the object of a new book entitled “The Young Hero,” that I edited together with J.-M. Durand and Th. Römer.

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I’ve just published a short review of Thomas Naef’s Holy Bits. A Guide for Using Computers in Biblical Scholarship (Piscataway, Gorgias Press, 2009).
You will find below in PDF format, or in the latest issue of the Revue d’Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses:

Michael Langlois, c.r. de Thomas Naef, Holy Bits. A Guide for Using Computers in Biblical Scholarship (Piscataway, Gorgias Press, 2009) in RPHR 91/2 (2011), p. 274-275.

The second episode of “Saga semitica,” asked by Jewish magazine Pharm’Aviv, is now published:

After Adam, Enoch and Noah, the Genesis saga experiences an unexpected turn of events: instead of embracing the whole of humanity, it focuses more and more on an ethnic group, a clan, a family, a character. Who? Why such an emphasis? Read on in this new episode of “Saga semitica”!

Michael Langlois, “Saga semitica, épisode 2″ in Pharm’aviv 128, juin 2011, p. 29-31

Jewish magazine Pharm’Aviv asked me to write a paper, entitled “Saga semitica”:

This is not a remix of the famous song by Yannick Noah, “Saga Africa,” whose twentieth birthday is celebrated this year. This is about another saga, much older (plurimillenary!), that puts on stage another Noah—from the Bible. This is the saga of a people and, in a way, of mankind.

Michael Langlois, “Saga semitica” in Pharm’Aviv 127 (03/2011), p. 36-38.

Who are the fallen angels? Where do they come from? What are their names? This last question caught my attention, and I invite you to discover my conclusions in the following paper:

Langlois, Michael. “Shemihazah et compagnie(s). Onomastique des anges déchus dans les manuscrits araméens du Livre d’Hénoch” in Aramaica Qumranica. Proceedings of the Conference on the Aramaic Texts from Qumran in Aix-en-Provence, 30 June – 2 July 2008, edited by Katell Berthelot and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, Leiden – Boston, Brill, 2010, 145-180.