The first volume of “Writing the Bible” series is just out! Written by Valérie Triplet-Hitoto, edited by your servant with a foreword by Francis Schmidt, it focuses on the interpretation of Dt 29...Read More
After a year-long gestation, the new series I submitted to Éditions du Cerf is ready to be born! Sous la plume de biblistes, philologues, épigraphistes et historiens des religions, cette collection ...Read More
I have been invited as a jury for the PhD in French and Comparative Literature prepared by Claire Placial at the University of Paris–Sorbonne with the following title: For a Close History of Transla...Read More
I will be in San Francisco on November 19-22, 2011, for the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) Annual Meeting, which gathers every year some of the best Bible scholars. This meeting immediately foll...Read More
Qumran: the most important archaeological discovery of the XXth century. A revolution for the study of the Bible, ancient Judaism, and the birth of Christianity. Intrigued? Come Wednesday, October 12,...Read More
It’s time to get back to school in Paris! Your Hebrew is getting old? Want to study texts from the Hebrew Bible? Come to ELCOA (School of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) every ...Read More
“Generations in Unison“: this is the theme of the 2011 Protes’temps forts in Strasbourg. But what does the Bible say about it? Isn’t the Bible the theater—even the source—of a ...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
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