The first-born in the Hebrew Bible : between the right of primogeniture, child sacrifice and consecration

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Speaker(s)

Micaël Bürki

Collège de France, UMR 7192

Events

Reflections on the status and effects of bloodshed in the representations and practices of Greek cit…

Symposium

11 Apr 2012

5:40 - 6:15pm

Bernadette Martel-Thoumian

Suicide : taboo and ultimate transgression in medieval Arab sources

Lot, hospitality and incest (Gn18)

Adultery and prostitution in Old Israel's prophetic literature

Making contact-Ancient Near-Eastern expressions of powerful sight, speech and touch

The first-born in the Hebrew Bible : between the right of primogeniture, child sacrific…

From Tamar (Gen 38) to Tamar (2 Sam 13:1-22) : incest, power and begetting

Things not done in Israel : recounting and banishing the abominable in the Hebrew Bible…

The " barbares amorrites " : literary clichés and realities

Symposium

12 Apr 2012

3:25 - 4:00pm

Dorothea Erbele-Kuester

How to express the forbidden ? The language of Leviticus 11-20

From financial compensation to retaliation : Leviticus 24 and the transformation of law…

Transgression and initiation : reflections on some textual and literary problems in the…

The first-born in the Hebrew Bible : between the right of primogeniture, child sacrifice and consecration

Speaker(s)

Micaël Bürki

Events

Opening of the symposium

The action that makes you feel ashamed

Taboos and hemerology

Pollution, desecration and foreigners

The herem and its transgression on both sides of the Jordan River

Queenship in Judah: The Case of Athaliah and the Davidic Dynasty

Eating a taboo, eating a theft

Food practices and taboos according to the Book of Esther

The question of the " forbidden " of pork in ancient Egypt

The Sabbath and blood. About two major taboos in Persian Judaism

Reflections on the status and effects of bloodshed in the representations and practices of Greek cit…

Suicide : taboo and ultimate transgression in medieval Arab sources

Lot, hospitality and incest (Gn18)

Adultery and prostitution in Old Israel's prophetic literature

Making contact-Ancient Near-Eastern expressions of powerful sight, speech and touch

The first-born in the Hebrew Bible : between the right of primogeniture, child sacrific…

From Tamar (Gen 38) to Tamar (2 Sam 13:1-22) : incest, power and begetting

Things not done in Israel : recounting and banishing the abominable in the Hebrew Bible…

The " barbares amorrites " : literary clichés and realities

How to express the forbidden ? The language of Leviticus 11-20

From financial compensation to retaliation : Leviticus 24 and the transformation of law…

Transgression and initiation : reflections on some textual and literary problems in the…

The catalog of transgressions in the Writings of Damascus as a definition of ethics in ancient Judai…

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