I’ve just published a new inscription mentioning biblical Makkedah. It is written in Aramaic and dated to the fourth century BCE. It is an “ostracon,” i.e. a pottery shard recycled i...Read More
Christian Palestinian Aramaic (CPA) is often associated to Syriac, from which it inherits its writing; as a result, most printed editions use a Syriac font. But in reality, CPA uses a specific writing...Read More
Semitica 54 is out! Monde sémitique et Bible hébraïque, édité par Michael Langlois sous la direction de Thomas Römer. Paris, Maisonneuve, 2012. 250 p., ISBN 978-2-7200-1164-1. Here is the table ...Read More
The course of Old Testament Textual Criticism that I teach at the School of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the Catholic University of Paris starts tomorrow! This discipline consis...Read More
This is the title of the chapter I published in the new volume dedicated to the Young Hero. If you find this title intriguing, there’s one thing to do: read the chapter! Here it is in PDF format...Read More