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Arshag Chobanian (Armenian: Արշակ Չոպանեան; 15 July 1872 – 9 June 1954), was an Armenian short story writer, journalist, editor, poet, translator, literary critic, playwright, philologist, and novelist.
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Vahan Tekeyan (Armenian: Վահան Թէքէեան (January 21, 1878, Constantinople - April 4, 1945, Cairo) was an Armenian poet and public activist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vahan_Tekeyan

Having arrived at the École Biblique in 1893, Father Savignac specialized in epigraphy; he quickly became an absolute reference in Semitic epigraphy. Forming a studious tandem with Fr. Marie-Antonin Jaussen, he travelled with the latter on numerous occasions throughout Arabia, during epigraphic, archaeological and ethnological explorations from which he produced several monographs.

Born in Orléans, François studied law and history before entering the major seminary of his city. He only entered the Dominican Order in 1945, after two years of S.T.O. in Germany. He was ordained a priest in 1950. After an apostolate in Sweden, he was assigned to Éditions du Cerf in 1964 to direct theological and biblical collections. With Georges Casalis, he organized the TOB project from 1965. He was director of the Cerf from 1975 to 1979. He served as Director of the École Biblique from 1982 to 1984, when he had to take over the management of Le Cerf for one year.

One of the masters of the founding generation of the School was Félix- Marie Abel, o.p., born in Saint-Uze, in the Drôme, in 1878. He arrived as a novice in December 1897, and as soon as M.-J. Lagrange had identified his exceptional abilities, it was decided that he would remain in Jerusalem. He quickly became known for his mastery of Greek sources (texts and inscriptions), for the history and geography of Palestine. He wrote the historical part of Louis-Hugues Vincent's archaeological studies on Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron. He composed a large commentary of 1- 2 Maccabees (1949), books that he also translated for the fascicle edition of the Jerusalem Bible. For the second edition of the Jerusalem Bible, his work was largely taken up by Jean Starcky. Abel had also been asked to translate the Book of Joshua, which he was also commenting on at the time of his death.

Abel taught geography courses in Palestine at the Bible School for nearly 50 years. In 1932, he and Vincent carried out excavations on the site of the Byzantine Emmaus. In 1940, he was appointed consultant to the Pontifical Biblical Commission.

His three most enduring works remain: Grammar of the Biblical Greek followed by a selection of papyrus, Bible Studies series (1927), Geography of Palestine (I. 1933; II. 1938), and History of Palestine from the conquest of Alexander to the Arab invasion (1952). It is less well known that this scientist was an accomplished watercolorist, who wrote an illustrated guide to the Holy Land.

He died at the École Biblique on the eve of the 1953 Annunciation.

Fr. Bernard Couroyer arrived at the Ecole Biblique after very solid studies in classical and modern literature, as well as the theological and philosophical training given at Le Saulchoir. In 1929, he passed the examinations of the Biblical Commission.

He had been called to the School by Fr. Lagrange to become a professor of Assyriology. But Fr. Dhorme, director at the time, asked him to dedicate himself more to Egyptology; he therefore followed Fr. Abel's Coptic courses and learned hieroglyphics by himself. After a stay in Cairo to supervise the work of the new convent, he resumed teaching Egyptology and Coptic in Jerusalem. From 1929, he also became a biblical Hebrew teacher, until Father Lemoine's replacement in 1952. In 1955, when Fr. Marmadji died, he even became an Arabic teacher!

A member of the Palestine Oriental Society of Jerusalem, he was elected president in 1938.
Over the years, he forged his specialization: "Bible and Egyptology".

He translated the book of the Exodus for the Jerusalem Bible. He devoted much of his time to the study of the relationship between Bible passages and Egyptian civilization.

Fr. Couroyer was also prosecutor of the convent from 1945 to 1952.

Born in Mulhouse to a reluctant Jewish family, François Dreyfus was preparing for the entrance exam to the Ecole Polytechnique, where he was admitted in 1935. On his release in 1939, he was mobilized and then taken prisoner. It was in captivity that he read the Bible again, received Catholic catechesis and was baptized in 1941. It was also in prison that he met the famous Dominican Vicars and Congar. This probably explains why, at the end of the war, François Dreyfus chose to join the Dominican order. He took the habit in 1947 at the convent of Saint-Jacques in Paris and received the name of Paul.

First approached to accompany Fr. Bruno Hussar in the foundation of the Maison Saint-Isaïe in Jerusalem, Fr. Dreyfus was finally assigned to the École Biblique, where a New Testament teacher was needed. Living in East Jerusalem, Fr. Dreyfus had to bear the false name of Trevoux for several years. Returning to Le Saulchoir in 1957, he completed his thesis there and taught the New Testament for ten years.
Only then did he return to the EBAF, which was responsible for the reviews for the Bible Review; his field then became biblical theology. He opened up his fields of research very widely, until the publication, in 1984, of his best-selling book Jesus did he know he was God?

Paralyzed by an attack in 1990, he went to the brothers of Saint-Jean, in Rimont, where he died in December 1999.

The Central Zionist Archives preserves more than 1,500 personal papers of the leaders and activists of the Zionist Movement and the Yishuv. Some of these archives are very small (one or two files), but most of them are very large (tens of boxes). The list of personal papers includes well-known figures in Zionist history, such as: Theodor Herzl, Nahum Sokolow, David Wolffsohn, Max Bodenheimer, Henrietta Szold, Eliezer Ben Yehuda, Haim Arlossoroff and other functionaries and professionals, but also the papers of less well-known people who dealt with important aspects of Zionism and the development of the yishuv. The personal and public correspondence, diaries, family letters and photographs, are preserved in their archives and contribute to an understanding of their character and their work.

The collection of personal archives has been constantly growing. As the fields of study have changed over the years, so has the range of personal papers that the CZA is interested in collecting and preserving. Recently, the archives of men and women, who are perhaps less well known, but were active and influential in their specific areas of expertise, have been accepted for preservation by the CZA. For example, we are happy to have the papers Rudolfina Menzel, who developed the field of dog training in Palestine, and Sarah Bavli, who dealt with matters of nutrition, as well as the papers of people active in Zionist and Jewish affairs overseas, such as Yitzchak Harkavi, an active Zionist in South America, and Jean Halperin, a prominent activist amongst the Jews of France.

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