Johannes van der Ploeg

Johannes Petrus Maria van der Ploeg (born July 4, 1909 in Nijmegen ; † August 4, 2004 ibid) was a Dutch Catholic theologian ( Old Testament scholar ) and Dominican priest .

Life

Van der Ploeg entered the Dominican Order in 1926. After the study of theology and philosophy in Zwolle , Saulchoir and at the Angelicum in Rome , he received the 1932 ordination . The doctorate to Dr. theol. took place in 1934, the Dr. S. Scripturae 1946. During a stay at the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem in 1947 he came into contact with the first Dead Sea Scrolls . He recognized a role as the handwriting of the book of Isaiah , but considered it medieval and therefore worthless. Only later did this attitude change and van der Ploeg published on the Qumran scrolls. In 1951 he succeeded Bernard Jan Alfrink as professor of Old Testament, Hebrew and Old Syriac at the Catholic University of Nijmegen . From 1960 to 1961 he was also Rector Magnificus of the university. Later van der Ploeg dealt intensively with Christianity in South India. The Syrian Catholic Church appointed him choir bishop in 1963. Van der Ploeg retired in 1979. On his 70th birthday in 1982, the commemorative publication From Canaan to Kerala was dedicated to him. In terms of the church, van der Ploeg was conservative and turned in particular against the angel work and the Dutch catechism . His controversy with the Belgian dogmatist Edward Schillebeeckx resulting from the latter is also known .

Honors

Honorary Doctorate from the Institute for Syrian Studies in India (1997)
Choir Bishop of the Syrian Catholic Church (1963)

Memberships

Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences
Pontificia Accademia Theologica Romana (1980)

Monographs (selection)

Finds in the Judah Desert: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Brotherhood of Qumran. Bachem, Cologne 1959. [Translation of the original from 1957]
Le Rouleau de la guerre: traduit et annoté with an introduction. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 2. Brill, Leiden 1959.
Le Targum de Job de la grotte 11 de Qumran (11 QtgJob). Noord-Hollandsche Uitg. Maatschappij, Amsterdam 1962.

Web links

Literature by and about Johannes van der Ploeg in the catalog of the German National Library
Obituary ( memento of March 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) by David Berger

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. on the biographical data the obituaries in UVK 34 (2004), No. 5 (September / October), 320 (PDF) and Oriens Christianus 89 (2005), pp. 224–225.
↑ The Battle for the Scrolls. In: Die Zeit , No. 44/1957.
↑ From Canaan to Kerala (= AOAT 211). Ed. WC Delsman u. a., Butzon & Bercker u. a., Kevelaer u. a. 1982.
↑ Heiner Boberski : The angel work. Theory and Practice of Opus Angelorum. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1993, pages 23 and 201 f. ISBN 3-7013-0854-3

personal data
SURNAME	Ploeg, Johannes van der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ploeg, Johannes Petrus Maria van der (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch Old Testament scholar and Dominican priest
DATE OF BIRTH	4th July 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nijmegen
DATE OF DEATH	August 4, 2004
Place of death	Nijmegen

[1] Cf. on the biographical data the obituaries in UVK 34 (2004), No. 5 (September / October), 320 (PDF) and Oriens Christianus 89 (2005), pp. 224–225.

[2] The Battle for the Scrolls. In: Die Zeit , No. 44/1957.

[3] From Canaan to Kerala (= AOAT 211). Ed. WC Delsman u. a., Butzon & Bercker u. a., Kevelaer u. a. 1982.

[4] Heiner Boberski : The angel work. Theory and Practice of Opus Angelorum. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1993, pages 23 and 201 f. ISBN 3-7013-0854-3