SBF – Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Jerusalem [Faculty of Biblical Sciences and Archaeology]
The Journal was founded by the professor of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem during the academic year 1950/1951. It is the Annual (Year Book) of this Institution and therefore collects annually the various scholarly contributions by its professors prepared according to their diverse fields of research. Their studies are accompanied by a number of outside contributions offered by scholars from other scientific and academic institutions.
Besides exegetical, linguistic, and literary studies on the Old and New Testaments, you will find inside articles about the history and archaeology of the Biblical world in general, and of Judaism and Early Christianity in particular.
Each year the archaeologist of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum publish here the first reports of the campaigns of excavations performed by them in various part of the Holy Land, that is mainly in Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Syria and Egypt.
The Liber Annuus and all the series by the SBF
are published by the Custody of the Holy Land: