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French biblical and achaeological school of Jerusalem archives

Held by French Biblical and achaeological school of Jerusalem (EBAF)

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Reference	FR-EBAF/AE/1/1/4/6
Title	About the library.
Dates	1968-1981
Dates Start	1968
Dates End	1981
Level of description	File
Extend and medium	1 file

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Repository	French Biblical and achaeological school of Jerusalem (EBAF)
Name of creator(s)	French biblical and archaeological School (EBAF)

Conditions of access and use

Language of material

French

Catalogue references area

Sources

http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/about-the-library?sf_culture=en

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Fonds - 1 : French biblical and achaeological school of Jerusalem archives

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Reference	FR-EBAF/AE
Title	French biblical and achaeological school of Jerusalem archives
Dates Start	1890
Dates End	2004
Level of description	Fonds
Extend and medium	3,40 linear meters of textual records

Context area

Repository	French Biblical and achaeological school of Jerusalem (EBAF)
Name of creator(s)	French biblical and archaeological School (EBAF)
Archival history	The school is managed by its director who is a member of the St. Stephen Priory (Convent) but not submitted to the Convent's authority regarding the school management. The director is assisted by a deputy director and a secretary of Studies. The Convent and Biblical School archives' fonds is surprisingly small compared to the amount of activities of the institution since its creation nearly 130 years ago. It was found as such in the archives’ room of the school at the beginning of 2014. Several reasons needs to be considered to explain the relative thinness of the fonds. - During the First World War, the convent was occupied by troops; a number of documents may have been destroyed or loosed at that time. - Until recent times, clercs were often used to destroy their personal records when they were feeling the end of theirs lives, probably for the sake of humility and discretion. - The documents located in the archives' room are the only ones that have been arranged and described. It is highly probable that an amount of historical archives (documents from the general administration, the Procuracy, the Priory, etc.) is still in the rooms dedicated to these offices. These documents will need to be described in the future. Moreover, current and semicurrent records also stored in the various offices will be arranged only after they become historical archives. Currently there is no records retention schedule dealing with them. The documents from the EBAF's repository were arranged as a whole for the first time in February-March 2014. Before that, only Lagrange's collection had been arranged, by Father Montagnes, o.p., in order to prepare the beatification request for the said Lagrange. At the same time, Father Montagnes had also began to arrange Father Couroyer's collection. These two arrangement operations, along with the inventory realised, were processed again in 2014 to get an identical arrangement plan for the whole fonds. The present inventory results from this new process of arrangement. Throughout this arrangement work, only duplicates and day-to-day accounting documents (invoices) aged more than 25 years have been destroyed. The whole materials have been rehoused into archival containers and folders. The available quantity of pH neutral supplies at that moment was not sufficient to rehouse all the files. They might be rehoused in the future; espcecially to remove the current boxes, which are far from an adequate storage container: they do not prevent dust from penetrating into them and they are made from acid plastic.

Content and structure area

Description	Archival records of the French biblical and archaeological school of Jerusalem.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling	There is currently no management table. In this classification, eliminations have been limited to duplicates and current accounting documents (invoices) that are more than 25 years old.
Accruals	The collection is still increasing

Conditions of access and use

Conditions governing access	Subject to the authorization of French Biblical and achaeological school of Jerusalem (EBAF)
Finding aids	Couvent Saint-Étienne de Jérusalem, Ecole biblique et archéologique française, archives, Répertoire numérique Établi par Marie-Alpais Torcheboeuf, après classement des archives, Février – avril 2014

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Publication notes

MURPHY O’CONNOR, Jerry, Cent ans d’exégèse à l’École biblique. Nouveau Testament, Cahiers de la Revue biblique, Paris, 1990.
Cent ans d’exégèse à l’École biblique. Ancien Testament, Cahiers de la Revue biblique, Paris, 1990.
BENOIT, Pierre, Un siècle d’archéologie à l’École biblique de Jérusalem (1890-1990), Jérusalem, 1988.

Sources complémentaires
This fonds may be supplemented by documents related to the Bible School held at the General Archives of the Order of Preachers in Rome, for example:

Series IV: Correspondence of the Masters of the Order with Jerusalem
Series XI: files concerning Saint-Etienne de Jérusalem

Catalogue references area

Rules or conventions	International standard for archival description, General, etc.
Date of the catalogue	February - April 2014. November 2018.
Archivist's notes	Author: Marie-Alpais Torcheboeuf
Sources	http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/french-biblical-and-achaeological-school-of-jerusalem-archives?sf_culture=en

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Fonds - 1 : French biblical and achaeological school of Jerusalem archives