4:30 - 5:00pm
Symposium

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

Matthieu Richelle
Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East
4:30 - 5:00pm
    Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Chair: Corinne Lanoir, Institut Protestant de Théologie

    Speaker(s)

    Matthieu Richelle

    FLTE, EPHE, UMR 7192

    Events

    Opening of the symposium
    Thomas Römer

    Symposium
    9:00 - 9:15am

    Samsî-Addu in the prime of life
    Nele Ziegler

    Symposium
    9:15 - 9:45am

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

    Symposium
    9:45 - 10:15am

    The old king who didn't want to be cold
    Jean-Daniel Macchi

    Symposium
    10:15 - 11:00am

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

    Symposium
    11:15 - 11:45am

    The perception of old age in Hittite society
    Boris Alexandrov

    Symposium
    11:45am - 12:15pm

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

    Symposium
    12:15 - 1:00pm

    Old people talk
    Jean-Marie Durand

    Symposium
    2:15 - 2:45pm

    The ancients in Paleo-Babylonian times
    Michaël Guichard

    Symposium
    2:45 - 3:15pm

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

    Symposium
    3:15 - 4:00pm

    Some positive cultural associations of old age in the Hebrew Bible
    Saul Olyan

    Symposium
    4:15 - 4:45pm

    " Éclats de rire " : the case of the elderly woman
    Regine Hunziker-Rodewald

    Symposium
    4:45 - 5:15pm

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

    Symposium
    5:15 - 5:45pm

    Life is death
    Alain Prochiantz

    Symposium
    9:00 - 9:30am

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

    Symposium
    9:30 - 10:00am

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

    Symposium
    10:00 - 10:30am

    The discreet presence of old age in the New Testament
    Christian Grappe

    Symposium
    11:00 - 11:30am

    Approaches to old age in early Christianity
    Petra von Gemünden

    Symposium
    11:30am - 12:00pm

    Why do older people speak " words of vanity " according to Song of Songs R…
    David Hamidovic

    Symposium
    12:00 - 12:45pm

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

    Symposium
    2:00 - 2:30pm

    " May he live for 3 600 years ! "…
    Grégory Chambon

    Symposium
    2:30 - 3:00pm

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

    Symposium
    3:00 - 3:30pm

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

    Symposium
    4:00 - 4:30pm

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

    Symposium
    4:30 - 5:00pm

    The use of olden times between the Koran and Abbasid society
    Jacqueline Chabbi

    Symposium
    5:00 - 5:30pm

    Closing of the symposium
    Thomas Römer

    Symposium
    5:30 - 6:30pm

    See also

    Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
    Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East