Jewish magazine Pharm’Aviv asked me to write a paper, entitled “Saga semitica”: This is not a remix of the famous song by Yannick Noah, “Saga Africa,” whose twentieth bir...Read More
Who are the fallen angels? Where do they come from? What are their names? This last question caught my attention, and I invite you to discover my conclusions in the following paper: Langlois, Michael....Read More
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” e...Read More
I was asked by Transeuphratène to write a review of the book edited by Thomas Römer, The Books of Leviticus and Numbers, in the Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium series (Peeters, 20...Read More
The Qumran Library‘s second volume is out! After a first volume on Genesis, we worked on Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers. For those who do not know this project, our purpose it to offer a bilingu...Read More
The exhibition on the Dead Sea Scrolls at the National Library of France has been a huge success: 30000 visitors, unanimous press, book out of print before the exhibition even ended… By the way,...Read More
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...Read More
The official release of the 2009 Beaujolais Nouveau wines gives me an opportunity to mention the publication of Grégory Chambon’s latest book, The Wine Archives from Mari. I had the pleasure to...Read More
At the editor’s request, I wrote in Le Muséon a critical review of Jean-Claude Haelewyck’s Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages (Safran, 2006). The unusual length of this recensio...Read More
Jean-Marie Durand, Professor at the College of France (Assyriology chair), has just published a volume on clothes and textiles in the akkadian texts of Mari. This work is part of the Paris Babylonian ...Read More