15:30 to 16:00
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
15:30 to 16:00
    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
    09:30 to 09:45

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

    Symposium
    09:45 to 10:15

    The question of divine representation in the Assyrian world
    Lionel Marti

    Symposium
    10:15 to 10:45

    Making divine statues - and after ?
    Nele Ziegler

    Symposium
    10:45 to 11:15

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

    Symposium
    11:30 to 12:00

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

    Symposium
    12:00 to 12:30

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

    Symposium
    12:30 to 13:00

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

    Symposium
    14:30 to 15:00

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

    Symposium
    15:00 to 15:30

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

    Symposium
    15:30 to 16:00

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

    Symposium
    16:15 to 16:45

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

    Symposium
    16:45 to 17:15

    Anthropomorphism and aniconism
    François Déroche

    Symposium
    17:15 to 17:45

    Divine symbols in Paleo-Babylonian archives
    Dominique Charpin

    Symposium
    09:30 to 10:00

    Mari statues from texts
    Michaël Guichard

    Symposium
    10:00 to 10:30

    Betyls
    Jean-Marie Durand

    Symposium
    10:30 to 11:00

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

    Symposium
    11:15 to 11:45

    Yhwh Ṣěbā'ôt and the powers of war
    Christophe Nihan

    Symposium
    11:45 to 12:15

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

    Symposium
    12:15 to 12:45

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

    Symposium
    14:30 to 15:00

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

    Symposium
    15:00 to 15:30

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

    Symposium
    15:45 to 16:15

    Why should divine images be banned ?
    Thomas Römer

    Symposium
    16:15 to 16:45

    See also

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