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Bargil Pixner (March 23, 1921 – April 5, 2002) was an ethnically German, yet politically Italian, Benedictine monk, Biblical scholar and archaeologist, and Benedictine authority on the Dead Sea scrolls.〔Laub, Karin. 1999, September 27. "(Scroll Said Resembles Sea Scrolls )." ''Associated Press''.〕 == Biography == Pixner was born in 1921, the first of eight children, in Untermais, Meran, South Tyrol.〔 He started his study of theology in 1940 in Brixen and joined the Mill Hill Missionary Fathers' Tyrolean branch in 1941.〔 During World War II, Pixner was sent to the Eastern Front in 1944 after refusing to take an oath of allegiance to Hitler, but he escaped from Silesia in May 1945.〔 Pixner was ordained priest in 1946 in Brixen, immediately prior to leaving for missionary work in the Philippines, where he headed a leprosy center in Santa Barbara, Iloilo for the next eight years.〔 He later worked in France, Italy, and the United States, becoming a US citizen.〔 In May 1969, Pixner moved to Israel, co-founding Neve Shalom, a peace village, located near the biblical Emmaus, and entered the Order of Saint Benedict in 1972, taking his final vows at the Hagia Maria Sion Abbey in Jerusalem in 1974.〔 Pixner spent the next twelve years organizing the construction of an affiliated abbey at Tabgha before returning to Hagia Maria Sion Abbey in 1994 and then serving as a prior.〔 Pixner gave tours of the Holy Land to famous pilgrims such as Jimmy Carter and Helmut Kohl.〔Corley, Felix. 2002, May 17. "(Obituary: Fr Bargil Pixner )." ''The Independent''.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bargil Pixner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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