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(DEI; German Protestant Institute for the Study of the Holy Land in Antiquity). After, among others, the Deutscher Verein zur Erforschung Palästinas (German Society for the Study of Palestine) was founded in 1877, the École Biblique (The Bible school) in 1893, and the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (German Oriental Society) in 1898 (Excavations: III), the theological interest of the churches in the study of the Holy Land became organized in Germany. Supported by Wilhelm II, the DEI was founded at the Eisenach Conference on Jun 19, 1900 as an institution of the …