Bargil Pixner (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Bargil Pixner (March 23, 1921-April 5, 2002) was an Italian Benedictine monk, Biblical scholar and archaeologist, and Benedictine authority on the Dead Sea scrolls. Pixner was born in 1921, the first of eight children, in Untermais, Bolzano-Bozen. He started his study of theology in 1940 in Brixen (Bressanone) 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 (Bressanone), 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.