Michael Langlois

The latest edition of the Introduction to the Old Testament features a new section on the Eastern Churches’ Old Testament, with a general introduction followed by individual presentations of the main books included in the oriental canons.

I was asked to write this section, in which I proposed to include the following books: 3–4 Maccabees, 3–4 Esdras, Jubilees, Enoch, and the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs.

Here is a list of my contributions in PDF format:

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I have been invited to join the Enoch Seminar, an academic group of international specialists in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins:

As a specialist in Second Temple Judaism, you have been nominated, and are warmly invited, to join the Enoch Seminar: www.enochseminar.org Your bio-bibliographical entry has been already added to “4 Enoch: The Online Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism”

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Professors Thomas Römer and Christophe Nihan have invited me to give a lecture on “The Book of Enoch, Presentation and Perspectives” at the University of Lausanne, Faculty of Theology and Religious Sciences.
See you on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 5:00 PM!

Dariusz Długosz published a review of my book, Le premier manuscrit du Livre d’Hénoch, in The Qumran Chronicle. He concludes that:

Thanks to Michael Langlois’ research, a new direction for the study of Qumran manuscripts has been traced, both for the fragments’ material analysis and their interpretation.

Here is the whole review in PDF format:

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I was interviewed by French Magazine Littéraire (in English: “Literature Magazine”) in its June 2009 issue (number 487). You can read here the “Work in progress” column (p. 21) written by Lauren Malka:

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