The use of olden times between the Koran and Abbasid society

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Chair: Corinne Lanoir, Institut Protestant de Théologie

Speaker(s)

Jacqueline Chabbi

University of Paris VIII

Events

He's 110 years old, and to this day eats 500 loaves of bread, half a beef and drinks 10…

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

Symposium

22 May 2017

4:45 - 5:15pm

Regine Hunziker-Rodewald

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

" Moses was 120 years old when he died " (Dt 34,7) …

Life is death

Symposium

23 May 2017

9:30 - 10:00am

Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

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

Tithonos, the cicada and immortality : glyptic variations and the making of myths in Ro…

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 R…

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

" May he live for 3 600 years ! "…

" I have been young and I have grown old " (Ps 37:25).…

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

The use of olden times between the Koran and Abbasid society

Speaker(s)

Jacqueline Chabbi

Events

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 10…

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) …

Life is death

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

Tithonos, the cicada and immortality : glyptic variations and the making of myths in Ro…

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 R…

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

" May he live for 3 600 years ! "…

" I have been young and I have grown old " (Ps 37:25).…

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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