15:05 to 15:40
Symposium

Food practices and taboos according to the Book of Esther

Jean–Daniel Macchi
Taboos and transgressions
15:05 to 15:40
    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 (Switzerland)

    Events

    Symposium
    09:30 to 09:45
    Thomas Römer

    Opening of the symposium
    Symposium
    09:45 to 10:20
    Jean-Marie Durand

    The action that makes you feel ashamed
    Symposium
    10:20 to 10:55
    Lionel Marti

    Taboos and hemerology
    Symposium
    10:55 to 11:30
    Saul Olyan

    Pollution, desecration and foreigners
    Symposium
    11:45 to 12:20
    André Lemaire

    The herem and its transgression on both sides of the Jordan River
    Symposium
    12:20 to 12:55
    Omer Sergi

    Queenship in Judah: The Case of Athaliah and the Davidic Dynasty
    Symposium
    14:30 to 15:05
    Sophie Démare-Lafont

    Eating a taboo, eating a theft
    Symposium
    15:05 to 15:40
    Jean–Daniel Macchi

    Food practices and taboos according to the Book of Esther
    Symposium
    15:40 to 16:15
    Youri Volokhine

    The question of the " forbidden " of pork in ancient Egypt
    Symposium
    16:30 to 17:05
    Alfred Marx

    The Sabbath and blood. About two major taboos in Persian Judaism
    Symposium
    17:05 to 17:40
    Dominique Jaillard

    Reflections on the status and effects of bloodshed in the representations and practices of Greek cit…
    Symposium
    17:40 to 18:15
    Bernadette Martel-Thoumian

    Suicide : taboo and ultimate transgression in medieval Arab sources
    Symposium
    09:30 to 10:05
    Thomas Römer

    Lot, hospitality and incest (Gn18)
    Symposium
    10:05 to 10:40
    Markus Saur

    Adultery and prostitution in Old Israel's prophetic literature
    Symposium
    10:40 to 11:15
    Rosel Pientka

    Making contact-Ancient Near-Eastern expressions of powerful sight, speech and touch
    Symposium
    11:35 to 12:10
    Micaël Bürki

    The first-born in the Hebrew Bible : between the right of primogeniture, child sacrific…
    Symposium
    12:10 to 12:45
    Corinne Lanoir

    From Tamar (Gen 38) to Tamar (2 Sam 13:1-22) : incest, power and begetting
    Symposium
    14:15 to 14:50
    Daniele Garrone

    Things not done in Israel : recounting and banishing the abominable in the Hebrew Bible…
    Symposium
    14:50 to 15:25
    Dominique Charpin

    The " barbares amorrites " : literary clichés and realities
    Symposium
    15:25 to 16:00
    Dorothea Erbele-Kuester

    How to express the forbidden ? The language of Leviticus 11-20
    Symposium
    16:00 to 16:35
    Christophe Nihan

    From financial compensation to retaliation : Leviticus 24 and the transformation of law…
    Symposium
    16:50 to 17:25
    Jürg Hutzli

    Transgression and initiation : reflections on some textual and literary problems in the…
    Symposium
    17:25 to 18:00
    David Hamidovic

    The catalog of transgressions in the Writings of Damascus as a definition of ethics in ancient Judai…

    See also

    Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
    Taboos and transgressions