Bargil Pixner

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Bargil Pixner
Pixner in 1994
Born	(1921-03-23)March 23, 1921 Untermais, South Tyrol, Italy
Died	April 5, 2002(2002-04-05) (aged 81) Jerusalem, Israel
Citizenship	Italy United States

Bargil Pixner (March 23, 1921 – April 5, 2002) was an

Pixner was born in 1921, the first of eight children, in

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.^[2]

Pixner was ordained a priest in 1946 in Brixen immediately prior to leaving for missionary work in the Philippines, where he headed a leprosy centre in Santa Barbara, Iloilo for the next eight years.^[2] He later worked in France, Italy, and the United States, becoming a US citizen.^[2]

In May 1969, Pixner moved to

Pixner's theories, linking archaeological sites to events and figures in the Bible, have been met with mixed acceptance by scholars. In particular, he argued for a connection between Jesus and the Essenes and for the identification of the "Essene Gateway" (excavated beginning in 1977) on Mount Zion,^[3] and the dating of the crucifixion to Friday, April 7, AD 30.^[2] He shared Bagatti and Testa's thesis of a Church of Zion, Jerusalem in the 3rd–4th Centuries.

Pixner also identified a site on the north shore of the

• 1986. Glory of Bethlehem. Judson Press.
  ISBN 0-8170-1109-9
• 1992. With Jesus Through Galilee: According to the Fifth Gospel. Corazin Publishing.
  ISBN 0-8146-2427-8
• 1996. With Jesus In Jerusalem: His First and Last Days in Judea. Corazin Publishing.
  ISBN 965-434-004-6
• 1991. Paths of the Messiah And Sites of the Early Church from Galilee to Jerusalem. Ignatius.
  ISBN 978-0-89870-865-3