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 into writing medium. For more information, you may download the article in PDF format:

Langlois 2012, “Un nouvel ostracon mentionnant la ville biblique de Maqqéda”, Semitica 54, p. 51-63

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 of contents:

Première partie : Documents inédits

• Jean-Marie Durand – avec une note de Michaël Guichard. Noms d’équidés dans les textes de Mari. p. 9-18.
• Michaël Guichard. Relations entre Carkémish et Mari : nouveaux fragments. p. 19-32.
• André Lemaire. Quatre nouveaux ostraca paléo-hébreux. p. 33-49.
• Michael Langlois. Un nouvel ostracon mentionnant la ville biblique de Maqqéda. p. 51-63.
• André Lemaire. Trois nouveaux ostraca araméens d’Idumée. p. 65-70.
• Marie-Jeanne Roche. Deux graffiti thamoudiques dans la région de Bayḍāʾ, Pétra. p. 71-79.
• François Bron. Une nouvelle inscription sabéenne du règne de Laḥayʿathat Yarkham, roi de Sabaʾ et dhū-Raydān. p. 81-89.

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Feast is a central theme in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. Think about religious festivals, such as Passover, or family feasts, such as weddings. Think also about the parable of the banquet, or even the Lamb’s marriage supper in the book of Revelation. Feast is at the heart of the Bible!

To know more, come to Strasbourg for the next PULSE night on Friday, April 13 at 8 PM, at the Salvation Army (5 rue de la Chaîne). Bring your friends!

I am back on MaCasbah.net TV show, where Saïd Oujibou asked me more questions on the authenticity of Scriptures.

We talked about archaeology, apocryphal and pseudepigraphical literature, or the impact of scientific research on the Christian faith. Here is the full interview, which starts at 09:50:

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 that compose it, or the presence of variant readings in the earliest biblical manuscripts. Here is the full interview, which starts at 07:24: