#  Rev. Prof. Josef Briffa 

Pontifical Biblical Institute 

2024 White Levy Publication Program Grant Co-Recipient with Caroline Sauvage

 

 

 



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##  *[The Pontifical Biblical Institute excavations at Teleilat Ghassul in the Loyola Marymount Archaeological Museum (Los Angeles, CA, USA)](/pontifical-biblical-institute-excavations-teleilat-ghassul-loyola-marymount-archaeological)*

   
**Josef Mario Briffa SJ** is a Maltese Jesuit priest and archaeologist. He is an associate professor in the Biblical Faculty at Pontifical Biblical Institute (Rome / Jerusalem), teaching archaeology, ancient history and Sacred Scripture), and is Director of the PBI in Jerusalem, responsible for the academic programmes, and archaeological collection, in Jerusalem.

 His background is in both archaeology and biblical studies. He read for a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture (2009-2012), at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, and a PhD in archaeology at the UCL Institute of Archaeology (2012-2017), working on figureines in the late Iron Age Southern Levant.

 Over ten seasons (2013-2016, 2018-ongoing), he has excavated at the site of Tel Azekah in Israel, with Tel Aviv and Heidelberg universities, where he is Area Supervisor of Area N1. He has also excavated with the University of Malta, digging for four seasons (1997-2000) at Tas-Silġ, and one season at the Roman Villa in Żejtun (2008).

 His research interests in archaeology are the Levant, particularly in the Iron Age, and Maltese archaeology. He has worked particularly on the archaeological work of Fr. Emmanual Magri SJ (1851-1907), a pioneer in Maltese archaeology, and the first director of excavations at the Hypogeum in Hal Saflieni, Malta.



 

 

 





 

 

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