On 15 November 2024, the feast of Saint Albert the Great and the anniversary of the founding of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem, the Dies Academicus brought together teachers and students from the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum with the entire ÉBAF academic community.
Photo: ÉBAF, Ordo Prædicatorum. Attendees in the conference hall.
Photo: ÉBAF, Ordo Prædicatorum. Attendees in the conference hall.
Invited to give a lecture on developments in Assyriology, Dr. Uri Gabbay, Professor of Assyriology in the Department of Archaeology of the Ancient Near East and Director of the Ancient Near East Programme at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, paid a heartfelt tribute to Fr. Marcel Sigrist, OP, who died this year, praising his perseverance, his humility, his concern to pass on his knowledge and his zeal for the task which led him to publish some 40,000 tablets throughout his life.
Familiar with the house, Uri Gabbay captivated his audience, taking us along in the footsteps of Friar Marcel Sigrist, from the clay materiality of an inventory tablet in cuneiform characters, to speculative questioning on the concepts of monotheism, hemotheism and polytheism.
Photo: ÉBAF, Ordo Prædicatorum. Conference of Dr. Uri Gabbay.
Photo: ÉBAF, Ordo Prædicatorum. Conference of Dr. Uri Gabbay.
Once again, the Dies Academicus brought Franciscans and Dominicans together in a common quest to share and transmit the knowledge that lies at the heart of our contemplation.
Photo: ÉBAF, Ordo Prædicatorum. Friar Jorge-Francisco and a Franciscan friar from the SBF.
