Michael Langlois

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.

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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Ancien Testament interlinéaire hébreu-français, Alliance Biblique Universelle, 2007. 2844 p. Collaboration to the books of Daniel, Ezra, and Nehemiah.

This is the first interlinear Hebrew-French Old Testament. About thirty collaborators worked on this project for several years.

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