Des polytheismes aux monotheismes: Melanges d'assyriologie offerts a Marcel Sigrist

Marcel Sigrist is known in the world of assyriologists for his major

contribution to the knowledge of the Ur III period (ca. 2100-2000 BC),

owing in particular to the transcription of thousands of tablets that he

published in various books. For several decades he taught Assyriology at

the Ecole biblique et archeologique francaise de Jerusalem, where

he also served as the director on several occasions. His scholarly

legacy includes a selfless commitment to science, a desire to make the

world of the Bible better known, as well as a concern to share his

knowledge of the Ancient Near East and the Holy Land with a wider

audience and not only with specialists. The many researchers, from all

over the world who came to work in Jerusalem also remember Marcel

Sigrist’s warm welcome. This volume, written in English and French by

several renowned colleagues, is a token of their esteem and gratitude.