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Liber Annualis & Publications

Each year the Pontifical Gregorian University publishes in its Liber Annualis the publications and activities of its professors.

The Akropolis by night
The Akropolis by nightPhoto: pdl

Liber Annualis

Publications

  1. 2025

    P. Di Luccio, "Le comunità ebraico-gesuane di Gerusalemme", Avinu 2/2 (2025) 39-58.

  2. 2025

    Zuhovitzky, S., Waiman-Barak, P., Gadot, Y., The Cornets of Teleilat Ghassul as a Vigil Object, Tel Aviv 52.2, 159–185.

    An article on the cornets of Teleilat Ghassul, published in the journal Tel Aviv; open access.

    doi:10.1080/03344355.2025.2546274

Teleilat Ghassul and the museum

The reports of the Institute’s excavations, and recent work on the finds and the archive kept in Jerusalem.

Excavation reports

  • A. Mallon, R. Koeppel, R. Neuville, Teleilât Ghassûl I. Compte rendu des fouilles de l’Institut Biblique Pontifical 1929–1932, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome 1934.
  • R. Koeppel, H. Senès, J.W. Murphy, G.S. Mahan, Teleilât Ghassûl II. Compte rendu des fouilles de l’Institut Biblique Pontifical 1932–1936, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome 1940.
  • R. North, Ghassul 1960 Excavation Report, Analecta Biblica 14, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome 1961.

Recent studies on Teleilat Ghassul and the Museum

  • S. Rastorgueva, O. Shamir, J.M. Briffa, H. Ahituv, D. Rosenberg, “Base Mat Impressions in the Southern Levant and a Case Study from Late Chalcolithic Teleilat el-Ghassul”, Israel Exploration Journal 76.1 (2026) 1–32.
  • J.M. Briffa, “Il Museo del Pontificio Istituto Biblico a Gerusalemme”, in A. Amenta, C. Felli, M. Cappozzo (eds.), Materiale dal Vicino Oriente Antico, La Collezione del Pontificio Istituto Biblico 2, Edizioni Musei Vaticani 2022.
  • J.M. Briffa, From Sodom to Ghassul. The Legacy of the Ghassul Excavation at 90, poster, ICAANE 2021, Bologna (doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4593713).
  • J.M. Briffa, “90° anniversario degli scavi del Pontificio Istituto Biblico a Teleilat Ghassul”, Vinea Electa 20 (2020) 8–10.

The library’s copies of the excavation reports can be found in the catalogue.