Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East

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Program

Symposium

09:00 - 09:15

He's 110 years old, and to this day eats 500 loaves of bread, half a beef and drinks 100 jugs of beer

Nicolas Grimal

22 May 2017

Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Old people talk

Jean-Marie Durand

22 May 2017

Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

The ancients in Paleo-Babylonian times

Michaël Guichard

22 May 2017

Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

The trials of old age (according to the Hebrew Bible)

Jack Sasson

22 May 2017

Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Some positive cultural associations of old age in the Hebrew Bible

Saul Olyan

22 May 2017

Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

" Éclats de rire " : the case of the elderly woman

Regine Hunziker-Rodewald

22 May 2017

Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

" Moses was 120 years old when he died " (Dt 34,7) : a premature death ?

Thomas Römer

22 May 2017

Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Life is death

Alain Prochiantz

23 May 2017

Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Tithonos and eternal old age : narrative variations on the human condition in archaic Greece

Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

23 May 2017

Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Tithonos, the cicada and immortality : glyptic variations and the making of myths in Roman times

Véronique Dasen

23 May 2017

Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

The discreet presence of old age in the New Testament

Christian Grappe

23 May 2017

Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Approaches to old age in early Christianity

Petra von Gemünden

23 May 2017

Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Why do older people speak " words of vanity " according to Song of Songs Rabba 1:10 ?

David Hamidovic

23 May 2017

Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Cuneiform tablets : living beings that age, die and rise again

Dominique Charpin

23 May 2017

Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

" May he live for 3 600 years ! " : aging and units of time in Mesopotamian societies

Grégory Chambon

23 May 2017

Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

" I have been young and I have grown old " (Ps 37:25). Growing old and dying in the Psalms

Sophie Ramond

23 May 2017

Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Lax old men and rebellious youth. Generational conflict in biblical historiography

Hervé Gonzalez

23 May 2017

Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

How to read the " poem about old age " from Qohelet 12:1-7 ?

Matthieu Richelle

23 May 2017

Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

The use of olden times between the Koran and Abbasid society

Jacqueline Chabbi

23 May 2017

Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Closing of the symposium

Thomas Römer

23 May 2017

Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

23 May 2017

17:30 - 18:30

Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East

Documents and media

Program

Opening of the symposium

Samsî-Addu in the prime of life

The aging young hero. The question of age for Assyrian monarchs

The old king who didn't want to be cold

Why live to a ripe old age ? The obsession with long life in ancient China

The perception of old age in Hittite society

He's 110 years old, and to this day eats 500 loaves of bread, half a beef and drinks 100 jugs of beer

Old people talk

The ancients in Paleo-Babylonian times

The trials of old age (according to the Hebrew Bible)

Some positive cultural associations of old age in the Hebrew Bible

" Éclats de rire " : the case of the elderly woman

" Moses was 120 years old when he died " (Dt 34,7) : a premature death ?

Life is death

Tithonos and eternal old age : narrative variations on the human condition in archaic Greece

Tithonos, the cicada and immortality : glyptic variations and the making of myths in Roman times

The discreet presence of old age in the New Testament

Approaches to old age in early Christianity

Why do older people speak " words of vanity " according to Song of Songs Rabba 1:10 ?

Cuneiform tablets : living beings that age, die and rise again

" May he live for 3 600 years ! " : aging and units of time in Mesopotamian societies

" I have been young and I have grown old " (Ps 37:25). Growing old and dying in the Psalms

Lax old men and rebellious youth. Generational conflict in biblical historiography

How to read the " poem about old age " from Qohelet 12:1-7 ?

The use of olden times between the Koran and Abbasid society

Closing of the symposium

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