A New Ostracon Mentioning Biblical Makkedah

Posted on Thursday May 3rd, 2012Wednesday October 12th, 2016 by Michael Langlois

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 Unicode Font

Posted on Friday April 27th, 2012Wednesday November 29th, 2017 by Michael Langlois

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

The Text of Joshua 10: Philological, Epigraphical and Diachronic Approach

Posted on Monday February 13th, 2012Wednesday October 12th, 2016 by Michael Langlois

My lastest book is out! It is a detailed study of the textual witnesses of Joshua 10: the masoretic Hebrew text, the Septuagint old Greek version and its later recensions, but also a new deciphering o... Read More

About “Holy Bits”

Posted on Monday September 12th, 2011 by Michael Langlois

I’ve just published a short review of Thomas Naef’s Holy Bits. A Guide for Using Computers in Biblical Scholarship (Piscataway, Gorgias Press, 2009). You will find below in PDF format, or ... Read More

Epigraphic Mission in Switzerland

Posted on Saturday July 9th, 2011 by Michael Langlois

I am going on an epigraphic mission in Switzerland during the second half of July to study a collection of Hebrew ostraca with André Lemaire. An “ostracon” (plural: ostraca) is a pottery ... Read More