Johannes P. M. van der Ploeg
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Johannes Petrus Maria "Jan" van der Ploeg (4 July 1909, in Nijmegen – 4 August 2004, in Nijmegen) was a Dutch Dominican specialist in Hebrew, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Syriac manuscript research. He was Professor of Old Testament and Semitic studies at the Catholic University of Nijmegen from 1951 to 1979, after which time he spent most of his time in Kerala. He was raised to the dignity of chorbishop (or chorepiscopus) in the Syriac Catholic Church in 1963.
In 1958 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1]
Selected publications
- Oud-Syrisch Monniksleven, Leiden, 1942.
- Vondsten in de Woestijn van Juda, 1957; Engl. transl.: The Excavations at Qumran: A Survey of the Judaean Brotherhood and its Ideas, 1958; German transl., 1959.
- Editio princeps, Aramaic Job Targum from Qumran, 1971.
- The Christians of St. Thomas and their Syriac Manuscripts (Placid Lecture Series, 3), Bangalore, 1983.
- The Book of Judith (Daughter of Merari), (Môrân 'Ethô Series3, Baker Hill, Kottayam, 1991.
References
- ^ "Johannes Petrus Maria (Jan) van der Ploeg (1909 - 2004)" (in Dutch). Retrieved 30 July 2015.
- Van Rompay, Lucas (January 2005). "Obituary". Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 8 (1).
- Delsman, W. C.; et al., eds. (1982). "Von Kanaan bis Kerala". Alter Orient und Altes Testament (in German) (211). Festschrift for 70th Birthday.
Categories:
- CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl)
- CS1 German-language sources (de)
- Articles with FAST identifiers
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with ICCU identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with KBR identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with NKC identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with BPN identifiers
- Articles with DTBIO identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1909 births
- 2004 deaths
- Linguists from the Netherlands
- Old Testament scholars
- Dutch Dominicans
- 20th-century Dutch Roman Catholic priests
- Academic staff of Radboud University Nijmegen
- Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Rectors of universities in the Netherlands
- Syriac Catholic clergy
- 20th-century linguists
- All stub articles
- Dutch religious biography stubs