Michael Langlois

It’s time to get back to school! To refresh your memory, I offer you a twelve-hour intensive Hebrew session on Wednseday and Thursday, September 7-8, 2011, from 9:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 17:00. We’ll study together several texts from the Hebrew Bible.

I am going on an epigraphic mission in Switzerland during the second half of July to study a collection of Hebrew ostraca with André Lemaire.

An “ostracon” (plural: ostraca) is a pottery sherd reused (one could say “recycled”) as a cheap writing support (compared to papyrus or leather, for instance). It is a common support in Antiquity, notably for accounting or economical documents.
The study of these Hebrew ostraca will thus expand our knowledge of the life in Ancient Israel—a real treasure!

I will attend the SBL (Society of Biblical Literature) International Meeting, which will take place on July 4-7, 2011 at the famous King’s College, London.

I will speak in a session entitled “Working with Biblical Manuscripts” with a paper on “Working with Biblical Manuscripts: Joshua 10 at Qumran.” I will show how a new decipherment of the oldest fragments of the Book Joshua sheds light on the history of this fabulous text. See you in London!

The third part of the conference on “Law and Justice in the Ancient Near East” organized by the School of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (ELCOA) takes place on May 30-31, 2011 at the Catholic Institute of Paris.

This year’s focus is on socio-historical, ideological and ethical questions, with a varied program:
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The Laboratory of Studies on Monotheisms / Institute of Augustinian Studies (CNRS / EPHE) and the Research Group on Religious Non-Conformisms of the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries and on the History of Protestantisms (University of Strasbourg) organize their Fifth Day of Biblical Exegesis on the following theme :

The Exegesis of Isaiah 8:1-8
Thursday, April 7, 2011 from 10 AM to 4:45 PM

I will be the first speaker of this meeting, with a conference entitled “The Hebrew Text of Isaiah 8:1-8: Problems and Stakes.” Other conferences will follow on various topics such as the Septuagint Greek translation, medieval commentaries, Jewish medieval and modern exegesis, and Protestant readings. This meeting will take place at the University Palace in Strasbourg. Here is the full program: Read the rest of this entry »