3:30 - 4:00pm
Symposium

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

Jean-Daniel Macchi
Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible
3:30 - 4:00pm
    Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Speaker(s)

    Jean-Daniel Macchi

    University of Geneva, UMR 7192

    Events

    Opening of the symposium
    Thomas Römer

    Symposium
    9:30 - 9:45am

    Images of the gods and representation of the divine in the Ancient Near East : a warnin…
    Stefan Maul

    Symposium
    9:45 - 10:15am

    The question of divine representation in the Assyrian world
    Lionel Marti

    Symposium
    10:15 - 10:45am

    Making divine statues - and after ?
    Nele Ziegler

    Symposium
    10:45 - 11:15am

    Representations of gods in children's drawings
    Pierre-Yves Brandt

    Symposium
    11:30am - 12:00pm

    Sociable gods, or how to represent a pantheon ?
    Christoph Uehlinger

    Symposium
    12:00 - 12:30pm

    A look back at an ancient polemic : the cult of the donkey or donkey's head in the Jeru…
    David Hamidovic

    Symposium
    12:30 - 1:00pm

    The " master of ostriches " : a specificity of the representa…
    Fabian Pfitzmann

    Symposium
    2:30 - 3:00pm

    " These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt …
    Martin Leuenberger

    Symposium
    3:00 - 3:30pm

    " Now my eye has seen you " : Job and the representation of t…
    Jean-Daniel Macchi

    Symposium
    3:30 - 4:00pm

    Monotheism/aniconism/iconoclasm : debates surrounding Akhenaten's " unique…
    Youri Volokhine

    Symposium
    4:15 - 4:45pm

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

    Symposium
    4:45 - 5:15pm

    Anthropomorphism and aniconism
    François Déroche

    Symposium
    5:15 - 5:45pm

    Divine symbols in Paleo-Babylonian archives
    Dominique Charpin

    Symposium
    9:30 - 10:00am

    Mari statues from texts
    Michaël Guichard

    Symposium
    10:00 - 10:30am

    Betyls
    Jean-Marie Durand

    Symposium
    10:30 - 11:00am

    The deified king and his image in the cult of Ugarit
    Herbert Niehr

    Symposium
    11:15 - 11:45am

    Yhwh Ṣěbā'ôt and the powers of war
    Christophe Nihan

    Symposium
    11:45am - 12:15pm

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

    Symposium
    12:15 - 12:45pm

    Representations of the " peoples of the sea " in Ancient Near Eastern icon…
    Shirly Ben-Dor Evian

    Symposium
    2:30 - 3:00pm

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

    Symposium
    3:00 - 3:30pm

    Eyes, triangles and horned animals : a divine journey through the Near East and the Med…
    Tally Ornan et Benjamin Sass

    Symposium
    3:45 - 4:15pm

    Why should divine images be banned ?
    Thomas Römer

    Symposium
    4:15 - 4:45pm

    See also

    Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
    Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible