Biblical School Of Jerusalem
The French Biblical and Archaeological School (EBAF), located in Jerusalem , founded and run by the Dominican order , is a French institution of higher education and research, specializing in the archeology and the exegesis biblical.
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The School was founded in 1890 under the name of Biblical Studies Field School by Marie-Joseph Lagrange , a member of the Order of Preachers. In 1920 , it took its present name following its recognition as a national French archaeological school by the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-lettres.
The location of the EBAF located near a church in the fifth century when the relics were transferred to the martyr Stephen in 439, the Foundation Eudocia and became the main place of worship of the martyr in the Byzantine era to Jerusalem.
Disciplines
Since its inception, the School leads from the front, and complementary, archaeological research in Israel and adjacent countries and territories, and exegesis of biblical texts. It was reported in the disciplines of epigraphy , the language Semitic of Assyriology , of Egyptology , but also in ancient history, in geography or ethnography.
It is authorized to confer doctorate in canonical Scripture. It publishes the Revue Biblique, specialized work in various areas of excellence, and books addressed to a wider audience, including a French translation of the Bible , known as the Jerusalem Bible (1956, 1973, 1998) , which combines quality literary translations and critical rigor.
Among its most illustrious members, besides the Father Lagrange include fathers Marie-mile Boismard , Roland de Vaux , Raymond Jacques Tournay, or Pierre Benoit.
Qumran
Following the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls , biblical scholars in Jerusalem have greatly contributed to the exegesis and translation of texts Essenes.
Relationship with the Vatican authorities
The school and its founder were long suspected in the eyes of the Vatican authorities, while the Catholic Church was in full crisis of modernism and the father Lagrange (with other researchers contributing to the revival of Biblical studies) was suspected of modernism .
The reports have since subsided, especially since the encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu of 1943.
References
- Bernard Mountains, Marie-Joseph Lagrange, ed. Cerf, 2004, pp. 204-205 excerpts online
- Bernard Montagnes, 'The legacy of the modernist crisis. The Bible School in the aftermath of the Great War, "in Thomist Review , Vol. 90, No. 2, pp. 245-270, 1990.
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External Links
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