all members of the Dominican priory are involved in the work of the École. The priory is centred around the modern Basilica of St Stephen (Saint-Étienne) built over the ruins of an ancient predecessor, to which the supposed relics of Saint Stephen were transferred in 439, making the Byzantine-period church the centre of the cult of this particular saint. Since its creation, the school has been involved in the exegesis of biblical text, and has carried out archaeological research, in a complementary manner and without secrecy, in Palestine and the adjacent territories. Its principal disciplines are epigraphy, the Semitic languages, Assyriology, Egyptology, other aspects of ancient history, geography, and ethnography. It has the power to confer official doctorates in Holy Scripture. It publishes the Revue Biblique, which is a diverse collection of scholarship from its fields of excellence, and it also publishes material addressed to larger audiences, including a particular French translation of the Bible, known as the Jerusalem Bible (a work which strove both for critical translational rigour and for quality as a piece of literature). Notable members Among its most illustrious members, in addition to Marie-Joseph Lagrange, are Marie-Emile Boismard, Roland de Vaux, Raymond-Jacques Tournay, Jerome Murphy-O'Connor, and Pierre Benoit. Félix-Marie Abel (1878–1953) :pl:Charles Coüasnon, led the 1961–1977 excavations at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Jean-Baptiste Humbert (born 1940) Louis-Hugues Vincent (1872–1960) References External links Archaeological research institutes Biblical archaeology Biblical studies organizations Educational institutions established in 1890 1890 establishments in the Ottoman Empire