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A Dominican, Pierre Benoit studied the New Testament at the École Biblique in Jerusalem where he arrived in 1933. He taught at the École until 1984 and directed the institute between 1966–1971 or 1964-1972, as well as its journal, the "Revue biblique", from 1953 to 1968. An expert on the Second Vatican Council, he became a member of the Pontifical Biblical Institute and of the Pontifical Biblical Commission.