Michael Langlois

I will be in San Francisco on November 19-22, 2011, for the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) Annual Meeting, which gathers every year some of the best Bible scholars.

This meeting immediately follows the ASOR meeting, which I will also attend. These two meetings combine complementary disciplines: Bible and Ancient Near East!

More information on the SBL website.

Qumran: the most important archaeological discovery of the XX^th century. A revolution for the study of the Bible, ancient Judaism, and the birth of Christianity. Intrigued? Come Wednesday, October 12, at 8 PM in Strasbourg!

If you enjoyed Qumran, the Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed, or if you missed it, don’t miss this conference!

Who lived in Qumran? Who wrote these manuscripts? In what way did they revolutionize the study of the Bible? Were Jesus and his disciples at Qumran? These are but some of the questions that will be answered.

The conference will take place at Cap Europe Hotel, 6 rue de Bitche, 67000 Strasbourg. For more information (entrance fee, booking…) please click on the attached poster. Come with your friends!

It’s time to get back to school in Paris! Your Hebrew is getting old? Want to study texts from the Hebrew Bible?

Come to ELCOA (School of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) every other Friday from 10 AM to 12 PM. We start this coming Friday, September 30, with Psalm 121 (“I lift my eyes to the mountains…”)!

“Generations in Unison“: this is the theme of the 2011 Protes’temps forts in Strasbourg. But what does the Bible say about it? Isn’t the Bible the theater—even the source—of a true clash of generations?

Come on Nov. 2 at 6:30 PM to the University Palace, room 44, for a conference entitled:

“Bible and Generations: Clash or Unison?”

More information on the Protes’temps forts website.

This is the title of the chapter I published in the new volume dedicated to the Young Hero.
If you find this title intriguing, there’s one thing to do: read the chapter! Here it is in PDF format. Enjoy!

Michael Langlois, « Loin des yeux, non du cœur : l’héroïsme selon Daniel » in Le jeune héros. Recherches sur la formation et la diffusion d’un thème littéraire au Proche-Orient ancien, éd. par Jean-Marie Durand, Thomas Römer et Michael Langlois (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 250), Fribourg, Academic Press / Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011, p. 242-258.