Pieter Adriaan Verhoef (25 April 1914–18 January 2013) was a South African

theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

and professor at

Stellenbosch University Stellenbosch University ( af, Universiteit Stellenbosch) is a public research university situated in Stellenbosch, a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Stellenbosch is the oldest university in South Africa and the oldest extant ...

. He was dean of Stellenbosch's Faculty of Theology from 1975–1979. Verhoef was part of the editorial board that made the 1983 translation of the Bible into Afrikaans by the South African Bible Society. Verhoef earned a doctorate from the

Free University in Amsterdam The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (abbreviated as ''VU Amsterdam'' or simply ''VU'' when in context) is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, being founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research ...

and an MA in Semitic Languages from

Potchefstroom University The Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education (abbreviated as PU for CHE) was a South African university located in Potchefstroom. Instruction was mainly in Afrikaans. In 2004, the university was merged with other institutions to c ...

. In 1988, he earned Honorary Doctorates from both Potchefstroom University (in addition to his MA) as well as the

University of the Orange Free State The University of the Free State is a multi-campus public university in Bloemfontein, the capital of the Free State and the judicial capital of South Africa. It was first established as an institution of higher learning in 1904 as a tertiary se ...

Bibliography

*''The Books of Haggai and Malachi'' NICOT (Eerdmans, 1987)

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Tribute by Prof Hendrik Bosman
20th-century Protestant theologians 1914 births 2013 deaths Academic staff of Stellenbosch University North-West University alumni Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni {{theologian-stub