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Jérusalem, February 2025

Mass of Ashes
Wednesday March 5, 2025 at 12 pm

Join the Dominican community of St. Stephen’s Convent to enter Lent.

Mass with imposition of ashes.


Conference: No Woman, No Cry
Female Roles of Mourning in Ancient Egypt

On Thursday, February 20, 2025, Aurthur LeSage, PhD student at Sorbonne University of Letters and AIBL fellow at the ÉBAF, gave a conference entitled: “No Woman, No Cry – Female Roles of Mourning in Ancient Egypt.”

Watch this talk on our YouTube channel.

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Studying at ÉBAF: Become an AIBL Scholarship Holder

Do you want to study at the École Biblique et archéologique française a Jérusalem? This is possible thanks to the two scholarships financed by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

Two research grants for an academic year are open for application:

  • Master’s 2, doctoral or post-doctoral level
  • French or French-speaking nationality
  • Carry out research in the field of oriental archaeology (more particularly of the Holy Land) or the study of biblical texts, oriental philology.

Check your eligibility by clicking on this link.

The call for applications for the 2025-2026 academic year has been launched. The deadline to send in your application is May 2, 2025.

Don’t wait any longer!


The ÉBAF Scholarships

In addition to the two scholarships funded by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, there are several types of research grants that allow students to study at the ÉBAF.

Click here to learn more.


“From Egypt, I called My Son”

On Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 6 p.m., come and attend the conference given by Father Fabrizio Marcello, doctoral student at the ÉBAF and researcher at the Hebrew University, entitled: “From Egypt, I called my son” The New Testament in the light of the Greek papyri of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt.


Doctoral Defence by Fr. Dominic Okoye, OP

On Thursday, February 27, 2025, Fr. Dominic Okoye, OP, successfully defended his thesis: The Rhetoric of “Innocent Blood” language in the Manasseh Narrative (2 Kgs 21: 1-18).

In front of the academic community of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem and participants from other institutions, the friar from the Dominican province of St. Joseph the Worker (Nigeria, Ghana) brilliantly presented the fruit of his years of research and responded to his examiners’ questions and criticisms with concise, well-argued answers.

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Saint Thomas Aquinas, OP:
Between Writing and Tradition

From Thursday 13 to Friday 14 March 2025 at the Luxembourg School of Religion & Society, on the occasion of the 800th birthday of Saint Thomas Aquinas, the ÉBAF is co-organising an interdisciplinary conference. With the participation of Brother Olivier-Thomas Venard, OP.

More information by clicking on this link.


Lenten Offerings: I Support the ÉBAF

Support the EBAF and benefit from a tax reduction.

To donate

In France, by making a payment to the association Les Amis de l’ÉBAF, recognized as being of general interest, you can benefit from a 66% reduction in the amount of your donation. The reduction applies up to a limit of 20% of taxable income. For example: for a donation of 100 euros, the real cost is 34 euros. If you wish to make a payment in the United States, Canada, Switzerland or Belgium, click here.

CIC Account Friends of the ÉBAF
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Association of Friends of the ÉBAF
Convent of Saint James
20 rue des Tanneries, 75013 Paris, France

Join the Friends of the ÉBAF in France, the United States and Canada.



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