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Vatican II, Bible Studies, and other Churches

Between 1973-75 I was privileged to study at the Ecole Biblique et Archeologique Francaise de Jerusalem. This is a Roman Catholic institute founded and run by the Dominican order, based in Jerusalem and devoted to the study of the Bible, taking account of its physical and geographical setting in the Holy Land. The professors at the Ecole were largely French Dominicans, although there was also an Irish Dominican friar on the faculty, Jerome Murphy O'Connor, universally and affectionately known as Father Jerry. The Ecole had been the nursery of the well-known Bible de Jerusalem, published in 1956, which had spawned an English equivalent – the Jerusalem Bible. While I was studying there the second edition of La Bible de Jerusalem was published – considerably different in some ways to first edition, though still distinctively using the word Yahweh to translate the tetragrammaton.

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Clare Amos

Programme Coordinator for Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation at the World Council of Churches, and was previously Director of Theological Studies in the Anglican Communion Office.