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

Semitica

Posted on Tuesday April 10th, 2012Wednesday May 1st, 2013 by Michael Langlois

After years of silence, Semitica is back! Semitica was created in 1948 by the Intitute of Semitic Studies of the University of Paris, with a board including R. Blachère, A. Dupont-Sommer, Ch. F. Jean... Read More

MaCasbah.net: The Authenticity of Scriptures

Posted on Saturday March 10th, 2012Friday December 30th, 2022 by Michael Langlois

I was on yesterday’s MaCasbah.net TV show, where Saïd Oujibou interviewed me on the authenticity of Scriptures. We addressed such questions as the birth of the Bible, the selection of the books... 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