Michael Langlois

For the first time in its history, the National Library of France will host an exhibition on the Dead Sea Scrolls! This unprecedented event will take place on April 13 – July 11, 2010, and has been entitled Qumran: Uncovering the Dead Sea Scrolls. Hang on!

The National Library asked me to serve as their Scientific Advisor for this exhibition, which I accepted with great pleasure. Moreover, I will share with Laurent Héricher (oriental manuscripts curator) the Direction of Publication related to this exhibition. More on that later…

Please visit the National Library’s website for more information (such as opening hours, price, access…).

The Third International Conference on Christian Apocryphal Literature will take place on January 14-16, 2010, at the University of Strasbourg. Its theme is: “Christian Apocryphal Literature and Jewish Scriptures“.

The program is very rich, with dozens of papers and conferences. It is available below in PDF format:

Christian Apocryphal Literature and Jewish Scriptures

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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New TV magazine Mag Bible, which was aired on France 2 on Sunday, April 5, 2009 at 10:00 AM, features a documentary on Pontius Pilate, a Roman procurator in Judea’s at the time of Jesus-Christ.

On this occasion, I was interviewed by Roland Portiche in order to discuss historical sources dealing with Pilate (notably Philo of Alexandria and Josephus Flavius).

You can watch the 4-minute documentary here:

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