The Young Hero

Posted on 16 September 2011 by Michael Langlois

Samson, David, Daniel or Gilgamesh are some of the most famous heroes in biblical and mesopotamian literature. These characters are the object of a new book entitled “The Young Hero,” that I edite... Read More

Law and Justice in the Ancient Near East: Socio-historical, Ideological and Ethical Questions

Posted on 31 May 2011 by Michael Langlois

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,... Read More

The Wine Archives from Mari, by Grégory Chambon

Posted on 20 November 20094 January 2023 by Michael Langlois

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

About J.-C. Haelewyck’s Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages

Posted on 13 November 200920 November 2009 by Michael Langlois

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

The Nomenclature of Clothes and Textiles in the Texts of Mari, by Jean-Marie Durand

Posted on 5 November 20094 January 2023 by Michael Langlois

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

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