10:55 to 11:30
Symposium

Pollution, desecration and foreigners

Saul Olyan
Taboos and transgressions
10:55 to 11:30
    Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Speaker(s)

    Saul Olyan

    Brown University, Providence (USA)

    Events

    Opening of the symposium
    Thomas Römer

    Symposium
    09:30 to 09:45

    The action that makes you feel ashamed
    Jean-Marie Durand

    Symposium
    09:45 to 10:20

    Taboos and hemerology
    Lionel Marti

    Symposium
    10:20 to 10:55

    Pollution, desecration and foreigners
    Saul Olyan

    Symposium
    10:55 to 11:30

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

    Symposium
    11:45 to 12:20

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

    Symposium
    12:20 to 12:55

    Eating a taboo, eating a theft
    Sophie Démare-Lafont

    Symposium
    14:30 to 15:05

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

    Symposium
    15:05 to 15:40

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

    Symposium
    15:40 to 16:15

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

    Symposium
    16:30 to 17:05

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

    Symposium
    17:05 to 17:40

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

    Symposium
    17:40 to 18:15

    Lot, hospitality and incest (Gn18)
    Thomas Römer

    Symposium
    09:30 to 10:05

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

    Symposium
    10:05 to 10:40

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

    Symposium
    10:40 to 11:15

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

    Symposium
    11:35 to 12:10

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

    Symposium
    12:10 to 12:45

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

    Symposium
    14:15 to 14:50

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

    Symposium
    14:50 to 15:25

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

    Symposium
    15:25 to 16:00

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

    Symposium
    16:00 to 16:35

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

    Symposium
    16:50 to 17:25

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

    Symposium
    17:25 to 18:00

    See also

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