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...scholars had long admired the careful work of L'Ecole Biblique's scholars in the field of archaeology, the school came to secular fame only in 1949, when the Jordanian government entrusted it with collecting the Dead Sea Scrolls. One of its professors, French Dominican Roland de Vaux, is head of the international committee translating the scrolls into modern languages. De Vaux also headed the 36 scholars who prepared the Bible de Jérusalem, the first translation to take advantage of the scrolls' discoveries, including an early script of Isaiah. Located near the Damascus Gate...
...would be a sound idea to embody and run the state from one place, where he could keep his royal eye on the great nobles. Actually, the idea seems to have been suggested by the ambitions of the Minister of Finance, Nicolas Fouquet, who, at his chateau of Vaux-le Vicomte was unwise enough to out-status the King with "the insolent and audacious luxury" of a house-warming for 6,000 people. With "mingled admiration and fury," the King banished Fouquet to a fortress and decided to outbuild everyone in the known world. Thus was the Bourbon system brought...
...Very Rev. Father Roland G. de Vaux, LL.D., director of Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Francaise, Jerusalem...
...translating the Bible into Singhalese, Indonesian, Swahili, Zulu and Japanese. In Wales the Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff has agreed to cooperate with the Protestant and Anglican churches in sponsoring a new translation into Welsh. Many French Protestant churches use the excellent "Jerusalem Bible," translated by Dominican Fathers Roland de Vaux, Pierre Benoit and other Catholic scholars of Jordan's Ecole Biblique...
...them as a single source of dogma. In December the members of a theological commission assigned to formulate the schema on Scripture rejected a proposal signed by 19 conservative cardinals to impose new restrictions on Bible scholars. "Criticism can always be expected in any church," concludes Father de Vaux. "But honest study of the Bible can only bring together all faiths and people who base their religious inspiration and beliefs on the Bible. And this means all Christians. Ultimately, full understanding of the Bible will mean full agreement among all Christian confessions...