Wednesday 6 May 2015 Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot Open to all, subject to availability 09:30 - 10:00 Skip youtube video player Listen to audio Download audio Audio recording Documents and media Download support pdf (2.79 MB) Speaker(s) Dominique Charpin Professor at the Collège de France Events Previous Symposium 5 May 2015 09:30 to 09:45 Thomas Römer Opening of the symposium Symposium 5 May 2015 09:45 to 10:15 Stefan Maul Images of the gods and representation of the divine in the Ancient Near East : a warnin… Symposium 5 May 2015 10:15 to 10:45 Lionel Marti The question of divine representation in the Assyrian world Symposium 5 May 2015 10:45 to 11:15 Nele Ziegler Making divine statues - and after ? Symposium 5 May 2015 11:30 to 12:00 Pierre-Yves Brandt Representations of gods in children's drawings Symposium 5 May 2015 12:00 to 12:30 Christoph Uehlinger Sociable gods, or how to represent a pantheon ? Symposium 5 May 2015 12:30 to 13:00 David Hamidovic A look back at an ancient polemic : the cult of the donkey or donkey's head in the Jeru… Symposium 5 May 2015 14:30 to 15:00 Fabian Pfitzmann The " master of ostriches " : a specificity of the representa… Symposium 5 May 2015 15:00 to 15:30 Martin Leuenberger " These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt … Symposium 5 May 2015 15:30 to 16:00 Jean-Daniel Macchi " Now my eye has seen you " : Job and the representation of t… Symposium 5 May 2015 16:15 to 16:45 Youri Volokhine Monotheism/aniconism/iconoclasm : debates surrounding Akhenaten's " unique… Symposium 5 May 2015 16:45 to 17:15 Jacqueline Chabbi The Koran in its time : the pragmatic figure of the divine Symposium 5 May 2015 17:15 to 17:45 François Déroche Anthropomorphism and aniconism Symposium 6 May 2015 09:30 to 10:00 Dominique Charpin Divine symbols in Paleo-Babylonian archives Symposium 6 May 2015 10:00 to 10:30 Michaël Guichard Mari statues from texts Symposium 6 May 2015 10:30 to 11:00 Jean-Marie Durand Betyls Symposium 6 May 2015 11:15 to 11:45 Herbert Niehr The deified king and his image in the cult of Ugarit Symposium 6 May 2015 11:45 to 12:15 Christophe Nihan Yhwh Ṣěbā'ôt and the powers of war Symposium 6 May 2015 12:15 to 12:45 Sylvie Honigman Founding figures in the traditions of Ezra and the books of the Maccabees Symposium 6 May 2015 14:30 to 15:00 Shirly Ben-Dor Evian Representations of the " peoples of the sea " in Ancient Near Eastern icon… Symposium 6 May 2015 15:00 to 15:30 Pierre Keith The image of worship and the representation of the supernatural in the book of Daniel Symposium 6 May 2015 15:45 to 16:15 Tally Ornan et Benjamin Sass Eyes, triangles and horned animals : a divine journey through the Near East and the Med… Symposium 6 May 2015 16:15 to 16:45 Thomas Römer Why should divine images be banned ? Next See also Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible