The 9th Meeting of the Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense on “La secte de Qumrân et les origines du christianisme” was held in Leuven, Belgium (September 5-7, 1957) chaired by J. van der Ploeg.

The Proceedings, edited by Johannes P.M. van der Ploeg, were published in Paris [France]: Desclée De Brouwer, 1959.