Michael Langlois

The course of Old Testament Textual Criticism that I teach at the School of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the Catholic University of Paris starts today! This discipline consists in the comparison and evaluation of biblical manuscripts in Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Latin, Syriac, and so on. In what way do they differ? Can we retrieve the original biblical text? Answer: today at 1 PM!

The Qumran Library’s second volume is out!

After a first volume on Genesis, we worked on Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers.

For those who do not know this project, our purpose it to offer a bilingual edition (original text and French translation, with introductions and notes) of all Dead Sea scrolls. Manuscripts are grouped according to the books of the Bible they are related to.

I publish two very interesting Greek manuscripts in this volume:
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Paul-Hubert Poirier has published a review of my book, Le premier manuscrit du Livre d’Hénoch, in Catholic Biblical Quarterly 72 (2010), 799-800. He states that:

The importance of L[anglois]’s book for Enoch studies cannot be overstated

I want to express my deepest gratitude to Paul-Hubert Poirier for his extremely positive review, which I invite you to read in its entirety below:

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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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I will be the guest of “Time to tell,” a live show hosted by Stéphanie Gallet on RCF Radio on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 from 9 AM to 11:30 AM. The show’s theme will be: “What do Dead Sea Scrolls teach us?” You will be able to react live by calling 04.72.38.20.23. I’m waiting for you!

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