Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

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Program

Symposium

09:30 - 09:45

Opening of the symposium

Thomas Römer

05 May 2015

Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Images of the gods and representation of the divine in the Ancient Near East : a warning not to confuse the god and his representation

Stefan Maul

05 May 2015

Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

A look back at an ancient polemic : the cult of the donkey or donkey's head in the Jerusalem temple

David Hamidovic

05 May 2015

Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

The " master of ostriches " : a specificity of the representation of Yhwh in the South ?

Fabian Pfitzmann

05 May 2015

Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

" These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt " (1Ki 12:28). Representations of Yhwh in the official worship of the Kingdom of Israel

Martin Leuenberger

05 May 2015

Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

" Now my eye has seen you " : Job and the representation of the divine

Jean-Daniel Macchi

05 May 2015

Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Monotheism/aniconism/iconoclasm : debates surrounding Akhenaten's " unique god

Youri Volokhine

05 May 2015

Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

The Koran in its time : the pragmatic figure of the divine

Jacqueline Chabbi

05 May 2015

Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Anthropomorphism and aniconism

François Déroche

05 May 2015

Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Divine symbols in Paleo-Babylonian archives

Dominique Charpin

06 May 2015

Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Mari statues from texts

Michaël Guichard

06 May 2015

Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Betyls

Jean-Marie Durand

06 May 2015

Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

The deified king and his image in the cult of Ugarit

Herbert Niehr

06 May 2015

Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Yhwh Ṣěbā'ôt and the powers of war

Christophe Nihan

06 May 2015

Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Founding figures in the traditions of Ezra and the books of the Maccabees

Sylvie Honigman

06 May 2015

Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Representations of the " peoples of the sea " in Ancient Near Eastern iconography : towards the formulation of a new Philistine paradigm

Shirly Ben-Dor Evian

06 May 2015

Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

The image of worship and the representation of the supernatural in the book of Daniel

Pierre Keith

06 May 2015

Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Eyes, triangles and horned animals : a divine journey through the Near East and the Mediterranean, 5 000-500 BC.

Tally Ornan et Benjamin Sass

06 May 2015

Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

Why should divine images be banned ?

Thomas Römer

06 May 2015

Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot

06 May 2015

16:15 - 16:45

Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

Documents and media

Program

Opening of the symposium

Images of the gods and representation of the divine in the Ancient Near East : a warning not to confuse the god and his representation

The question of divine representation in the Assyrian world

Making divine statues - and after ?

Representations of gods in children's drawings

Sociable gods, or how to represent a pantheon ?

A look back at an ancient polemic : the cult of the donkey or donkey's head in the Jerusalem temple

The " master of ostriches " : a specificity of the representation of Yhwh in the South ?

" These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt " (1Ki 12:28). Representations of Yhwh in the official worship of the Kingdom of Israel

" Now my eye has seen you " : Job and the representation of the divine

Monotheism/aniconism/iconoclasm : debates surrounding Akhenaten's " unique god

The Koran in its time : the pragmatic figure of the divine

Anthropomorphism and aniconism

Divine symbols in Paleo-Babylonian archives

Mari statues from texts

Betyls

The deified king and his image in the cult of Ugarit

Yhwh Ṣěbā'ôt and the powers of war

Founding figures in the traditions of Ezra and the books of the Maccabees

Representations of the " peoples of the sea " in Ancient Near Eastern iconography : towards the formulation of a new Philistine paradigm

The image of worship and the representation of the supernatural in the book of Daniel

Eyes, triangles and horned animals : a divine journey through the Near East and the Mediterranean, 5 000-500 BC.

Why should divine images be banned ?

See also