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

    Symposium
    09:30 to 09:45
    Thomas Römer

    Opening of the symposium
    Symposium
    09:45 to 10:15
    Stefan Maul

    Images of the gods and representation of the divine in the Ancient Near East : a warnin…
    Symposium
    10:15 to 10:45
    Lionel Marti

    The question of divine representation in the Assyrian world
    Symposium
    10:45 to 11:15
    Nele Ziegler

    Making divine statues - and after ?
    Symposium
    11:30 to 12:00
    Pierre-Yves Brandt

    Representations of gods in children's drawings
    Symposium
    12:00 to 12:30
    Christoph Uehlinger

    Sociable gods, or how to represent a pantheon ?
    Symposium
    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
    14:30 to 15:00
    Fabian Pfitzmann

    The " master of ostriches " : a specificity of the representa…
    Symposium
    15:00 to 15:30
    Martin Leuenberger

    " These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt …
    Symposium
    15:30 to 16:00
    Jean-Daniel Macchi

    " Now my eye has seen you " : Job and the representation of t…
    Symposium
    16:15 to 16:45
    Youri Volokhine

    Monotheism/aniconism/iconoclasm : debates surrounding Akhenaten's " unique…
    Symposium
    16:45 to 17:15
    Jacqueline Chabbi

    The Koran in its time : the pragmatic figure of the divine
    Symposium
    17:15 to 17:45
    François Déroche

    Anthropomorphism and aniconism
    Symposium
    09:30 to 10:00
    Dominique Charpin

    Divine symbols in Paleo-Babylonian archives
    Symposium
    10:00 to 10:30
    Michaël Guichard

    Mari statues from texts
    Symposium
    10:30 to 11:00
    Jean-Marie Durand

    Betyls
    Symposium
    11:15 to 11:45
    Herbert Niehr

    The deified king and his image in the cult of Ugarit
    Symposium
    11:45 to 12:15
    Christophe Nihan

    Yhwh Ṣěbā'ôt and the powers of war
    Symposium
    12:15 to 12:45
    Sylvie Honigman

    Founding figures in the traditions of Ezra and the books of the Maccabees
    Symposium
    14:30 to 15:00
    Shirly Ben-Dor Evian

    Representations of the " peoples of the sea " in Ancient Near Eastern icon…
    Symposium
    15:00 to 15:30
    Pierre Keith

    The image of worship and the representation of the supernatural in the book of Daniel
    Symposium
    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
    16:15 to 16:45
    Thomas Römer

    Why should divine images be banned ?

    See also

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