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Bargil Pixner (March 23, 1921 – April 5, 2002) was an Germans Italian-American monk of the Order of Saint Benedict, Biblical studies and archaeologist, and commentator on the Dead Sea Scrolls.Laub, Karin. 1999, September 27. " Scroll Said Resembles Sea Scrolls." Associated Press.
During World War II, Pixner was sent to the Eastern Front in 1944 after refusing to take an oath of allegiance to Adolf Hitler, but he escaped from Silesia in May 1945.
Pixner was holy orders 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. He later worked in France, Italy, and the United States, becoming a US citizen.
In May 1969, Pixner moved to Israel, co-founding Neve Shalom, a peace village, located near the biblical Emmaus Nicopolis, and entered the Order of Saint Benedict in 1972, taking his final vows at the Abbey of the Dormition in Jerusalem in 1974. Pixner spent the next twelve years organizing the construction of an affiliated abbey at Tabgha before returning to Hagia Maria Sion Abbey in 1994 and then serving as a prior. Pixner gave tours of the Holy Land to famous pilgrimage such as Jimmy Carter and Helmut Kohl.Corley, Felix. 2002, May 17. " Obituary: Fr Bargil Pixner." The Independent.
Pixner also identified a site on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee as the site of Bethsaida in a 1985 article,Pixner, Bargil 1985, December. "The Miracle Church at Tabgha on the Sea of Galilee." Biblical Archaeologist 48 (4): 196–206 an identification which the State of Israel made official in 1989 after excavations in 1987. Pixner showed the site to Pope John Paul II in March 2000, declaring a key excavated from the site to be the "key to the first Vatican." The tell had previously been dismissed by William F. Albright in the 1930s as a potential site for Bethsaida, but Pixner discovered Hellenistic and Iudaea Province artefacts while walking through trenches after the Six-Day War.Shapiro, Haim. 1998, May 14. "Where 'he walked upon the water.'" The Jerusalem Post.
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