The invention of writing profoundly changed mankind’s relation to the divine. It enabled religions to develop and adopt sacred Scriptures, with a varied status in different places or eras. This ...Read More
The organization committee of the “Bible, Heritage of Mankind” exhibition, in Orleans on Jan. 14 – Feb. 5, asked me to give a conference on: The Bible Facing Archaeology What do archaeological d...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 will be attending the ASOR annual meeting in San Francisco on November 16-19, 2011. This meeting gathers hundreds of Ancient Near Eastern scholars and archaeologists. The ASOR (American Schools of O...Read More
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