Johannes P.M. van der Ploeg (1909-2004), scholar
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Johannes P.M. van der Ploeg (1909-2004) was a Dutch scholar. Professor of Old Testament and Semitics at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (now Radboud University), from 1951 until 1979; and, since his consecration by H.H. Patriarch Tappouni in 1963, a chorbishop of the Syrian-Catholic Church. Published important studies and translations in the field of the Dead Sea Scrolls.