The chair Biography and publications Public lectures Guest lecturers Annual summaries Team and contact Audios and videos News Upcoming Previous Guest lecturer 26 May 2026 16:00 to 17:00 Louis Jonker Socio-Political Transformation and Biblical Interpretation: The Case of Post-Apartheid South Africa Guest lecturer 1 Jun 2026 16:00 to 17:00 Louis Jonker Reforming History: The Book of Chronicles and Its Reception in Post-Apartheid South Africa Next 8 series Filters Event type Event type Lecture (3) Symposium (4) Opening lecture (1) Academic year Academic year 2025 - 2026 (2) 2024 - 2025 (2) 2023 - 2024 (2) 2022 - 2023 (1) 2021 - 2022 (2) 2020 - 2021 (2) (-) 2019 - 2020 (2) (-) 2018 - 2019 (3) 2017 - 2018 (2) 2016 - 2017 (3) 2015 - 2016 (2) 2014 - 2015 (2) 2013 - 2014 (2) 2012 - 2013 (2) 2011 - 2012 (2) 2010 - 2011 (2) 2009 - 2010 (2) (-) 2008 - 2009 (3) Active filters 2019 - 2020 2018 - 2019 2008 - 2009 2019 - 2020 Symposium Not recorded Ugarit, 90 years later Near East - Caucasus : languages, archaeology, cultures (PROCLAC), Dominique Charpin, Nicolas Grimal, Thomas Römer 13 Nov 2019 → 16 Nov 2019 13 Nov 2019 → 16 Nov 2019 Lecture Birth of the Bible. Old and new hypotheses (II) Thomas Römer 27 Feb 2020 → 27 May 2020 27 Feb 2020 → 27 May 2020 2018 - 2019 Symposium New research on the Mesha stele Thomas Römer 02 Oct 2018 → 03 Oct 2018 02 Oct 2018 → 03 Oct 2018 Lecture Birth of the Bible. Old and new hypotheses (I) Thomas Römer 14 Mar 2019 → 16 May 2019 14 Mar 2019 → 16 May 2019 Symposium Women in power !? Queens, priestesses, prophetesses and more in the Ancient Near East Thomas Römer 23 May 2019 → 24 May 2019 23 May 2019 → 24 May 2019 2008 - 2009 Opening lecture 18:00 - 19:00 The horns of Moses. Bringing the Bible into history Thomas Römer 05 Feb 2009 Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 05 Feb 2009 18:00 - 19:00 Lecture The construction of an ancestor : the formation of the Abrahamic cycle Thomas Römer 11 Feb 2009 → 07 May 2009 11 Feb 2009 → 07 May 2009 Symposium The young hero Thomas Römer, Jean-Marie Durand 06 Apr 2009 → 07 Apr 2009 06 Apr 2009 → 07 Apr 2009