3:05 - 3:40pm
Symposium

Food practices and taboos according to the Book of Esther

Jean–Daniel Macchi
Taboos and transgressions
3:05 - 3:40pm
    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

    Opening of the symposium
    Thomas Römer

    Symposium
    9:30 - 9:45am

    The action that makes you feel ashamed
    Jean-Marie Durand

    Symposium
    9:45 - 10:20am

    Taboos and hemerology
    Lionel Marti

    Symposium
    10:20 - 10:55am

    Pollution, desecration and foreigners
    Saul Olyan

    Symposium
    10:55 - 11:30am

    The herem and its transgression on both sides of the Jordan River
    André Lemaire

    Symposium
    11:45am - 12:20pm

    Queenship in Judah: The Case of Athaliah and the Davidic Dynasty
    Omer Sergi

    Symposium
    12:20 - 12:55pm

    Eating a taboo, eating a theft
    Sophie Démare-Lafont

    Symposium
    2:30 - 3:05pm

    Food practices and taboos according to the Book of Esther
    Jean–Daniel Macchi

    Symposium
    3:05 - 3:40pm

    The question of the " forbidden " of pork in ancient Egypt
    Youri Volokhine

    Symposium
    3:40 - 4:15pm

    The Sabbath and blood. About two major taboos in Persian Judaism
    Alfred Marx

    Symposium
    4:30 - 5:05pm

    Reflections on the status and effects of bloodshed in the representations and practices of Greek cit…
    Dominique Jaillard

    Symposium
    5:05 - 5:40pm

    Suicide : taboo and ultimate transgression in medieval Arab sources
    Bernadette Martel-Thoumian

    Symposium
    5:40 - 6:15pm

    Lot, hospitality and incest (Gn18)
    Thomas Römer

    Symposium
    9:30 - 10:05am

    Adultery and prostitution in Old Israel's prophetic literature
    Markus Saur

    Symposium
    10:05 - 10:40am

    Making contact-Ancient Near-Eastern expressions of powerful sight, speech and touch
    Rosel Pientka

    Symposium
    10:40 - 11:15am

    The first-born in the Hebrew Bible : between the right of primogeniture, child sacrific…
    Micaël Bürki

    Symposium
    11:35am - 12:10pm

    From Tamar (Gen 38) to Tamar (2 Sam 13:1-22) : incest, power and begetting
    Corinne Lanoir

    Symposium
    12:10 - 12:45pm

    Things not done in Israel : recounting and banishing the abominable in the Hebrew Bible…
    Daniele Garrone

    Symposium
    2:15 - 2:50pm

    The " barbares amorrites " : literary clichés and realities
    Dominique Charpin

    Symposium
    2:50 - 3:25pm

    How to express the forbidden ? The language of Leviticus 11-20
    Dorothea Erbele-Kuester

    Symposium
    3:25 - 4:00pm

    From financial compensation to retaliation : Leviticus 24 and the transformation of law…
    Christophe Nihan

    Symposium
    4:00 - 4:35pm

    Transgression and initiation : reflections on some textual and literary problems in the…
    Jürg Hutzli

    Symposium
    4:50 - 5:25pm

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

    Symposium
    5:25 - 6:00pm

    See also

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