Thomas Römer

Public lectures

The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
Upcoming

The Quest for Atmospheric Water
Laurence Boisson de Chazournes

Symposium
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The History of the Israelite and Judean Kingdoms: From Solomon to the Babylonian Exile …
Thomas Römer

Lecture
2:00 - 3:10pm
High turnout

The History of the Israelite and Judean Kingdoms: From Solomon to the Babylonian Exile …
Thomas Römer

Lecture
2:00 - 3:10pm
High turnout

The History of the Israelite and Judean Kingdoms: From Solomon to the Babylonian Exile …
Thomas Römer

Lecture
2:00 - 3:10pm
High turnout

The History of the Israelite and Judean Kingdoms: From Solomon to the Babylonian Exile …
Thomas Römer

Lecture
2:00 - 3:10pm
High turnout

The History of the Israelite and Judean Kingdoms: From Solomon to the Babylonian Exile …
Thomas Römer

Lecture
2:00 - 3:10pm
High turnout

The History of the Israelite and Judean Kingdoms: From Solomon to the Babylonian Exile …
Thomas Römer

Lecture
2:00 - 3:10pm
High turnout

The History of the Israelite and Judean Kingdoms: From Solomon to the Babylonian Exile …
Thomas Römer

Lecture
2:00 - 3:10pm
High turnout

The History of the Israelite and Judean Kingdoms: From Solomon to the Babylonian Exile …
Thomas Römer

Lecture
2:00 - 3:10pm
High turnout

Climate and Natural Disasters in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
Thomas Römer

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41 series

2026 - 2027

The Quest for Atmospheric Water
Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, Thomas Römer

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Symposium

The Quest for Atmospheric Water: Historical, Philosophical, Theological, Political, and Legal Issues.

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The History of the Israelite and Judean Kingdoms: From Solomon to the Babylonian Exile
Thomas Römer

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High turnout
Lecture
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Climate and Natural Disasters in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
Thomas Römer

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Symposium
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2025 - 2026

The origins of the Israelite monarchy: Saul, David and Solomon
Thomas Römer

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Legitimations and contestations of political power in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
Thomas Römer

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Seminar
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2024 - 2025

God at war : accounts of conquest in the book of Joshua
Thomas Römer

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Wars, conquests and peace strategies in the Ancient Near East and the Bible
Thomas Römer

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2023 - 2024

Biblical discourses on origins (Genesis 1-11)
Thomas Römer

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How to describe origins in the biblical world and the ancient Near East
Thomas Römer

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Seminar
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2022 - 2023

No lectures this year
Thomas Römer

Lecture

2021 - 2022

The Bible's oldest epic : The Story of Jacob
Thomas Römer

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Translation of texts from the story of Jacob
Thomas Römer

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2020 - 2021

Birth of the Bible (continued)
Thomas Römer

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God at the Collège de France
Antoine Compagnon, Thomas Römer

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2019 - 2020

Ugarit, 90 years later
Near East - Caucasus : languages, archaeology, cultures (PROCLAC), Dominique Charpin, Nicolas Grimal, Thomas Römer

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Birth of the Bible. Old and new hypotheses (II)
Thomas Römer

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Lecture
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2018 - 2019

New research on the Mesha stele
Thomas Römer

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Birth of the Bible. Old and new hypotheses (I)
Thomas Römer

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Women in power !? Queens, priestesses, prophetesses and more in the Ancient Near East
Thomas Römer

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2017 - 2018

The Ark of the Covenant : myths, stories and history
Thomas Römer

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Blood : discourses, rituals and practices
Thomas Römer

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2016 - 2017

Society and religion in Ugarit
Thomas Römer, Dominique Charpin, Nicolas Grimal, Near East - Caucasus : languages, archaeology, cultures (PROCLAC)

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Israel in the desert : the Book of Numbers and the completion of the Torah
Thomas Römer

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Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East
Thomas Römer

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2015 - 2016

The Bible and Egypt : The story of Joseph (Genesis 37-50)
Thomas Römer

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Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes
Thomas Römer

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2014 - 2015

The Book of Exodus : myths and stories (continued)
Thomas Römer

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Representing gods and men in the Ancient Near East and the Bible
Thomas Römer

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2013 - 2014

The Book of Exodus : myths and stories
Thomas Römer

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Between gods and men : angels, demons and more..
Thomas Römer

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2012 - 2013

The human condition : Ancient Near East and Hebrew Bible
Thomas Römer

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Divine wrath and repentance
Thomas Römer

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2011 - 2012

The god Yhwh : its origins, its cults, its transformation into a single god (continued)
Thomas Römer

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Taboos and transgressions
Thomas Römer

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2010 - 2011

The god Yhwh : its origins, its cults, its transformation into a single god
Thomas Römer

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How do you become a prophet ?
Thomas Römer, Jean-Marie Durand

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2009 - 2010

The Abrahamic cycle (continued) : alliances, wars and scandalous sacrifice
Thomas Römer

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The living and their dead
Jean-Marie Durand, Thomas Römer

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2008 - 2009

The horns of Moses. Bringing the Bible into history
Thomas Römer

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Opening lecture
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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The construction of an ancestor : the formation of the Abrahamic cycle
Thomas Römer

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The young hero
Thomas Römer, Jean-Marie Durand

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