Michael Langlois

As I did last year, I challenge you to learn to read Hebrew in one day! If you don’t believe me, come Friday, September 9, 2011 from 9:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 17:00!

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 have been invited to speak at an international conference on the Targums (Aramaic versions of the Hebrew Bible) in the light of ancient Jewish traditions from the Second Temple period (i.e. until the beginning of the common era).

My paper will address the question of a possible Second Temple origin for the critique of power in the targumim. If you’re interested, the conference will take place in Strasbourg on June 27-28, 2011.

Here is the meeting program: Read the rest of this entry »

The University of Strasbourg’s Faculty of Protestant Theology organizes, in collaboration with our colleagues from the University of Heidelberg, a conference on French philosopher Paul Ricœur.

This conference takes place on 13–14 May 2011 in Strasbourg; here is the complete program: Read the rest of this entry »

This the theme of a major european conference that will take place at the University of Strasbourg on January 28-30, 2011 and which will accompany the “Psalms in Dialog – Himmelwärts” exhibition (January 28 to February 24), for which I have been sollicited.

On this occasion, I have prepared a new translation and commentary of Psalm 1, the theme of a sixteenth-century grisaille painting. I have tried to be faithful both to the text and the rhythm of this beautiful psalm, which you can (re)discover here:

Psalm 1 – Psalms in Dialog

For more information on the conference, please have a look at the program.