Lecture: "Discovering fantastic beings from the Bible and the Talmud", by Géraldine Roux

Name: Lecture: "Discovering fantastic beings from the Bible and the Talmud", by Géraldine Roux
Start: 2022-09-18T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T12:00:00+02:00
Location: Institut Universitaire Européen Rachi

From Golem to the land of giants, from Leviathan to Behemoth to Na'ash, the Bible is populated with fantastic creatures that sometimes appear only at the turn of a verse.

Sunday 18 September 2022, 10:30Passed

Conditions

Free. Registration recommended.

Registration

contact@institut-rachi-troyes.fr Register / book: http://www.institut-rachi-troyes.fr 03 10 95 30 07

Léviathan / Florilège hébraïque du nord de la France c.1280 folio 518v ©British Library

Most have disappeared and yet haunt the pages with their silent, disturbing or burlesque, melancholic or drolatic presence. According to the interpretations. We will make this journey to the other side of the world using the Midrash, the Talmud and the comments that Rachi makes of it. Sustainable heritage, did you say?
Géraldine Roux is a teacher and doctor of philosophy, director of the Rachi University Institute.

About the location

Institut Universitaire Européen Rachi

2 rue Brunneval, 10000 Troyes

Aube
Grand Est

Building of master(teacher) of the XVIIIth century, the Rachi institute is a place of education(teaching), of research(search) and of transmission of culture across Hebrew and Semitic, Jewish thoughts in the spirit of the big(great) commentator Rachi of Troy.