Johannes Peder Ejler Pedersen (7 November 1883 – 22 December 1977) was a Danish Old Testament scholar and Semitic philologist.
After he graduated from Sorø Academy in 1902, Pedersen began study of Semitic languages[4] under Professor Frants Buhl at the University of Copenhagen.
Pedersen continued his Semitic studies abroad under Heinrich Zimmern, August Fischer, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, and Ignaz Goldziher from 1909 to 1912.
During this period, he began publishing his many works by co-authoring Bibelbog for Skole og Hjem (Biblebook for School and Home) in 1909.
[8] Pedersen exhibited an “exceptional ability to enter into the spirit of the ancient Oriental trains of thought,” as demonstrated in his primary work, Israel: Its Life and Culture, in four volumes (1920–34; Eng.