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Christmas is a time to look back on all that has been accomplished over the past year and to take good resolutions to carry our […]

Christmas Celebrations 2025 at Saint Stephen’s Basilica

The Dominican community of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem is delighted to welcome you to celebrate the Nativity of the Lord at […]

Video: ÉBAF Thursdays – 11 December 2025 “The miracle-working rabbis: a process of ‘Hasidisation’ of the Sages?” with Brother Olivier Catel, OP

This past Thursday, December 11, as part of the “ÉBAF Thursdays” series, we heard a presentation on “Miracle-working rabbis: a process of ‘Hasidization’ of the […]

Brother Pierre de Marolles — Reading the Apocalypse Without Fear

After serving for two years as Prior of the Dominican community in Geneva, Brother Pierre de Marolles has now been assigned to Jerusalem to continue […]

VIDEO: ÉBAF Thursday, December 4: “Jesus and the Dogs: Echoes of Ugarit in the Gospels?”

We gathered on Thursday, December 4, 2025, at 6 p.m. at the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem for a lecture in the series […]

Video : Colloquium at the ICP — Life at the risk of others, a lesson taught by the Bible

On 29 November 2025 at 3:00 p.m., Les Amis de l’ÉBAF and the Institut Catholique de Paris hosted a lecture by Anne-Marie Pelletier on ‘Life […]

135th anniversary of the École Biblique: a tribute to the legacy of Father Lagrange

On November 15, the feast day of St Albert the Great, patron saint of science, the École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem celebrated the […]

Video: M.-Augustin Tavardon, “From Humanism to Criticism: Erasmus, Beza, and Wettstein”

The École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem invited the public to another “ÉBAF Thursday” on November 20, at 6:00 p.m. The session was led […]

A new superior for St-Etienne priory in Jerusalem!

At a chapter meeting, the community of Dominican friars elected Brother Stanisław Gurgul, OP, prior of the Priory of St Stephen Protomartyr (St-Étienne) in Jerusalem, […]

Joint academic encounter of the ÉBAF and the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum

A fruitful exchange between Franciscans and Dominicans in Jerusalem On Saturday, 8 November, in the Old City of Jerusalem, approximately 120 students and professors from […]

Video in English: EBAF Thursday – November 13 “Who are the seraphim in the context of Trinitarian discussions?”

The École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem (ÉBAF) invited the public to its “ÉBAF Thursday” on November 13 at 6:00 p.m., for a lecture […]

Commemoration of the faithful departed at Saint-Étienne

On Sunday, November 2, All Souls’ Day, the brothers of Saint Stephen’s Convent celebrated a solemn Mass in memory of the brothers who preceded them, […]

Video: Lecture by Jean-Marie Auwers: “The Divine Word opens to us as we read it”

After a first episode dedicated to archaeology, on Thursday, October 30, at 6 p.m., a biblical and patristic lecture was held at the École Biblique […]

Video : The conservation of mosaics in the Mediterranean basin with Patrick Blanc

For the first “Jeudi de l’ÉBAF” of the academic year, Patrick Blanc, curator-restorer at the Musée départemental Arles antique, gave a lecture on the theme […]

On Duty!

The École biblique has started its academic year, as it does every October 1st. Despite the situation in the country and a reduced number of […]

CANONISATION OF DOMINICAN LAY TERTIARY PIER GIORGIO FRASSATI

This Sunday, September 7, 2025, the Church proclaims Pier Giorgio Frassati a saint—a young lay Dominican tertiary from Turin. Pope Francis, who repeatedly presented him […]

THIS YEAR AT THE ÉBAF: A JESUIT AT THE DOMINICANS’

Could you please introduce yourself? I’m Fr. Andreas Bergmann, SJ, coming from Germany. For the last 15 years I lived and worked as a vicar […]

THIS YEAR AT THE ÉBAF: FROM BEST ASSISTANT TO DOCTORAL STUDENT

Could you please (re)introduce yourself? My name is Arthur, and I am currently a PhD candidate in Egyptology at the Sorbonne. Prior to this, I […]

14 JULY 2025 AT THE ÉBAF

14th of July in Jerusalem- time for the École biblique et archéologique to remember the pioneers who came from France, boldly founding an institution that remains […]

THIS YEAR AT THE ÉBAF: FRIAR FROM THE EAST COST

Who are you Fr. Leo? My name is Fr. Leo Checkai, from the Eastern Dominican Province of Saint Joseph in the United States. I’m a […]

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