Thomas Römer

Public lectures

The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
Upcoming
Guest lecturer
16:00 to 17:00
Louis Jonker

Socio-Political Transformation and Biblical Interpretation: The Case of Post-Apartheid South Africa
Guest lecturer
16:00 to 17:00
Louis Jonker

Reforming History: The Book of Chronicles and Its Reception in Post-Apartheid South Africa
38 series

2025 - 2026

Lecture

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

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Seminar

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

Thomas Römer
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2024 - 2025

Lecture

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

Thomas Römer
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Seminar

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

Thomas Römer
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2023 - 2024

Lecture

Biblical discourses on origins (Genesis 1-11)

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Seminar

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

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2022 - 2023

Lecture

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Thomas Römer

2021 - 2022

Lecture

The Bible's oldest epic : The Story of Jacob

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Seminar

Translation of texts from the story of Jacob

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2020 - 2021

Lecture

Birth of the Bible (continued)

Thomas Römer
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Symposium

God at the Collège de France

Antoine Compagnon, Thomas Römer
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2019 - 2020

Symposium
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Ugarit, 90 years later

Near East - Caucasus : languages, archaeology, cultures (PROCLAC), Dominique Charpin, Nicolas Grimal, Thomas Römer
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Lecture

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

Thomas Römer
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2018 - 2019

Symposium

New research on the Mesha stele

Thomas Römer
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Lecture

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

Thomas Römer
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Symposium

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

Thomas Römer
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2017 - 2018

Lecture

The Ark of the Covenant : myths, stories and history

Thomas Römer
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Symposium

Blood : discourses, rituals and practices

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2016 - 2017

Symposium

Society and religion in Ugarit

Thomas Römer, Dominique Charpin, Nicolas Grimal, Near East - Caucasus : languages, archaeology, cultures (PROCLAC)
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Lecture

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

Thomas Römer
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Symposium

Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East

Thomas Römer
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2015 - 2016

Lecture

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

Thomas Römer
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Symposium

Oral and written in Eastern Antiquity : writing and publishing processes

Thomas Römer
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2014 - 2015

Lecture

The Book of Exodus : myths and stories (continued)

Thomas Römer
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Symposium

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

Thomas Römer
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2013 - 2014

Lecture

The Book of Exodus : myths and stories

Thomas Römer
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Symposium

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

Thomas Römer
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2012 - 2013

Lecture

The human condition : Ancient Near East and Hebrew Bible

Thomas Römer
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Symposium

Divine wrath and repentance

Thomas Römer
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2011 - 2012

Lecture

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

Thomas Römer
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Symposium

Taboos and transgressions

Thomas Römer
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2010 - 2011

Lecture

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

Thomas Römer
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Symposium

How do you become a prophet ?

Thomas Römer, Jean-Marie Durand
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2009 - 2010

Lecture

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

Thomas Römer
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Symposium

The living and their dead

Jean-Marie Durand, Thomas Römer
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2008 - 2009

Opening lecture
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The horns of Moses. Bringing the Bible into history

Thomas Römer
Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Lecture

The construction of an ancestor : the formation of the Abrahamic cycle

Thomas Römer
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Symposium

The young hero

Thomas Römer, Jean-Marie Durand
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