Pontifical Biblical Institute: Studying the Bible for 100 year

On one of Romes quieter, less travelled streets the worlds only institution dedicated solely to Biblical studies houses over 200,000 volumes. It was founded by Pius X 100 years ago.

Jose Maria Abrego
Rector, Pontifical Biblical Institute
One hundred years for an academic institution is nothing. But it does allow it to claim a certain experience and try to look toward the future and toward the service it can develop in the future with a base.

Jose Maria Abrego sat in these classrooms 40 years ago as a young student. Today he is the rector of the institute.

Among the hundreds of thousands of books in the institutions library, students can find priceless reading material dating back centuries. Like this Bible from the 16th century written in Latin and Hebrew.

Religious and laypeople alike come to the institute from all over the world. By the end of their time here, which is usually three rigorous years of study, they will have been fluent in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and or Aramaic.

These languages only make up the base necessary to understand the meaning of the Bible. Students have to know the history and culture behind it as well.

Jose Maria Abrego
Rector, Pontifical Biblical Institute
Its not just about reading the Bible. Its about enjoying it and coming back to it. I think the Bible is the base for the communication of faith and the base for theological and religious thought.

The institute has quite a reputation. Of the 200 people who participated in the synod of the word of God in 2008, for example, 80 were alumni of the institute.

The pope celebrated the institutes 100 years with Abrego and his students in a private audience.

Jose Maria Abrego
Rector, Pontifical Biblical Institute
He thanked the institute for the service it provides, because after all, its the only one. He encouraged us to look toward the future.

Abregos hope for the future is that, like him, the students that come through the Pontifical Biblical Institute for the next 100 years take their knowledge to their communities and to the world.

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[GradStud28]

Why would you think that it should be? In Christianity, the Bible is only one source of doctrine. This is no surprise, of course, since the Christian Bible didn't exist at the beginning of Christianity, but was composed and compiled (by "the church") over quite a long time. Many of the beliefs and practices even of this very earliest period are outlined in literature that eventually did not come to be in the Bible. I can't think of any religious tradition whose doctrine is based only on one book

[tonymynd]

Mat 15:8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

[meepal123q]

After 100 years of study, why is it 86% of Roman doctrine is not found in the Bible?