from Thursday 26 May to Friday 27 May 2016 See also: Thomas Römer Conferences in English are simultaneously translated into French. Documents and media Download program pdf (384.19 KB) Program Symposium 09:00 - 09:15 Opening of the symposium Thomas Römer 26 May 2016 Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 26 May 2016 09:00 - 09:15 Symposium 09:15 - 09:45 From the written to the spoken word in the Middle Euphrates during the Bronze Age Jean-Marie Durand 26 May 2016 Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 26 May 2016 09:15 - 09:45 Symposium 09:45 - 10:15 The circulation of magic formulas in the Ancient Near East : the case of Mari's unpublished incantations Michaël Guichard 26 May 2016 Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 26 May 2016 09:45 - 10:15 Symposium 10:15 - 10:45 Messages from beyond the grave in Syria, between orality and writing Herbert Niehr 26 May 2016 Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 26 May 2016 10:15 - 10:45 Symposium 11:15 - 11:45 Sign and trace Nicolas Grimal 26 May 2016 Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 26 May 2016 11:15 - 11:45 Symposium 11:45 - 12:15 West-Semitic chancelleries in the 9th century BC n. è. according to archaeological evidence Benjamin Sass 26 May 2016 Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 26 May 2016 11:45 - 12:15 Symposium 12:15 - 12:45 Royal scribe and the transition from oral to written : ougarit and the Elisée cycle André Lemaire 26 May 2016 Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 26 May 2016 12:15 - 12:45 Symposium 14:15 - 14:45 Saying, writing, transmitting : the publishing processes of Assyrian royal inscriptions Lionel Marti 26 May 2016 Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 26 May 2016 14:15 - 14:45 Symposium 14:45 - 15:15 From history to legend : the kings of Akkad Dominique Charpin 26 May 2016 Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 26 May 2016 14:45 - 15:15 Symposium 15:15 - 15:45 From oral to : the case of Gilgamesh Nele Ziegler 26 May 2016 Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 26 May 2016 15:15 - 15:45 Symposium 16:15 - 16:45 Who was in charge of Mazdean orality ? Jean Kellens 26 May 2016 Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 26 May 2016 16:15 - 16:45 Symposium 16:45 - 17:15 From oracles to prophetic literature Hervé Gonzalez 26 May 2016 Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 26 May 2016 16:45 - 17:15 Symposium 17:15 - 17:45 The origins of the Oral Torah in the Pentateuch Thomas Römer 26 May 2016 Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 26 May 2016 17:15 - 17:45 Symposium 09:30 - 10:00 Texts before texts. The role of orality and memory in the transmission of Sumerian ritual lamentations Paul Delnero 27 May 2016 Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 27 May 2016 09:30 - 10:00 Symposium 10:00 - 10:30 Oralities and writings in the world of Greek cities. Knowledge and practices Dominique Jaillard 27 May 2016 Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 27 May 2016 10:00 - 10:30 Symposium 10:30 - 11:00 Indications of an imitative oral and written scribality at the beginning of the Bible : the case of Genesis 1-4 David Carr 27 May 2016 Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 27 May 2016 10:30 - 11:00 Symposium 11:30 - 12:00 Theories on oral tradition from the late 19th century to the present day Jean-Louis Ska 27 May 2016 Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 27 May 2016 11:30 - 12:00 Symposium 12:00 - 12:30 Orality in redaction ? Some examples from the Pentateuch Jaeyoung Jeon 27 May 2016 Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 27 May 2016 12:00 - 12:30 Symposium 12:30 - 13:00 The influence of presuppositions on results. The story of David and Goliath (1 Samuel 17 ; 2 Samuel 21, 19) read through the prism of orality, scribality and cultural memory Diana Edelman 27 May 2016 Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 27 May 2016 12:30 - 13:00 Symposium 14:30 - 15:00 Oral and written transmission of the text of the books of Samuel and Kings Jan Rückl 27 May 2016 Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 27 May 2016 14:30 - 15:00 Symposium 15:00 - 15:30 Orality in the edition and re-editions of the Qumran Community Rule David Hamidovic 27 May 2016 Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 27 May 2016 15:00 - 15:30 Symposium 15:30 - 16:00 Reading and writing the Koran in early Islam : the stigma of recitation in manuscript writing Eléonore Cellard 27 May 2016 Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 27 May 2016 15:30 - 16:00 See also Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts