Denis Buzy

Denis Buzy
Born	March 22, 1883 Bénéjacq
Died	May 21, 1965(1965-05-21) (aged 82) Bethlehem
Nationality	French
Known for	Excavation of Wadi Tahuna in 1928
Scientific career
Fields	Archaeology

Denis Buzy (born at Bénéjacq March 22, 1883; died at Bethlehem May 21, 1965) was a French archaeologist who excavated the Tahunian culture at Wadi Tahuna near Bethlehem in 1928.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

Buzy was a Betharram Father and in 1933 published the Life of St. John the Baptist, the forerunner of our Lord.^[8]

Biography

Denis Buzy was born at Bénéjacq, in the Basses-Pyrénées on March 22, 1883; after studying philosophy and theology at the seminary of the Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart in Betharram in Bethlehem, he was ordained as a priest on August 24, 1906. He continued his studies in Rome where he obtained a doctorate in philosophy and theology and in 1911 in Holy Scripture.

His career continued in Bethlehem from 1908 to 1935, where he began archaeological and biblical work. He conducted excavations of the Tahuna (Stone Age) culture at Wadi Tahuna near Bethlehem in 1928.^{[9][10][11][12]} He was elected Superior General in 1935 of the Congregation of the Betharram Fathers, a position he held until 1958. He put his sons through World War II. He had the merit of instituting national seminars in Argentina, England and Italy where new vocations were born in a growing congregation. He organized the congregation in new provinces with missionary and educational activities in Thailand and French North Africa (there was for example a college in Casablanca).

He then retired to Bethlehem where he continued his Bible and exegetical studies. At the same time, he was the spiritual director of the Carmel of Bethlehem. T.R.P. Buzy died in 1965.

References

1. Avi Gopher (November 1994). Arrowheads of the neolithic Levant: a seriation analysis. Eisenbrauns. pp. 12–. ISBN 978-0-931464-76-8. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
2. Buzy, Denis., Une Industrie Mesolithique en Palestine, In : Revue biblique, ISSN 0035-0907, vol.37 1 4, pp. 558–578, Planches XXVII-XXXI, 1928.
3. Moore, A.M.T. (1978). The Neolithic of the Levant, Neolithic Palestinian Tahunian. Oxford University, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis. pp. Selected Excerpt on the Tahunian Period.
4. Albright, W. F., Recent progress in the late prehistory of Palestine - Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1931.
5. Banning, E.B., The Neolithic period: Triumphs of architecture, agriculture, and art, Near Eastern Archaeology, American schools of Oriental Research, 1998.
6. Braidwood, L., Notes on the Flint Implements of Tabbat Al-Hammām, Institut Francais du Proche-Orient, Syria, 1940
7. Wendell Stephen Reilly; Catholic Biblical Association of America (1964). The Catholic Biblical quarterly. Catholic Biblical Association of America. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
8. BOOKS RECEIVED, The Manchester Guardian; 31 October 1933
9. Buzy, Denis., Une Industrie Mesolithique en Palestine, In : Revue biblique, ISSN 0035-0907, vol.37 1 4, pp. 558–578, Planches XXVII-XXXI, 1928.
10. Albright, W. F., Recent progress in the late prehistory of Palestine - Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1931.
11. Banning, E.B., The Neolithic period: Triumphs of architecture, agriculture, and art, Near Eastern Archaeology, American schools of Oriental Research, 1998.
12. Braidwood, L., Notes on the Flint Implements of Tabbat Al-Hammām, Institut Francais du Proche-Orient, Syria, 1940