John Punnett Peters
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1852 – 1921
Who was John Punnett Peters?
John Punnett Peters was an American Episcopal clergyman and Orientalist, born in New York City. He graduated from Hopkins School in 1868 and then from Yale in 1873. He studied at Berlin and at Leipzig. He was professor of Old Testament languages and literature at the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School in Philadelphia and professor of Hebrew at the University of Pennsylvania and from 1888 to 1895 conducted excavations at Nippur with John Henry Haynes and Hermann Volrath Hilprecht. He became rector of St. Michael's Church, New York, in 1893, and from 1904 to 1910 he was also canon residentiary of the cathedral of St. John the Divine. Architect Frazier Forman Peters was his son.
Peters wrote:
Nippur, or Explorations and Adventures on the Euphrates
The Old Testament and the New Scholarship
Early Hebrew Story: Its Historical Background
With Hermann Thiersch, Painted tombs in the necropolis of Marissa
Annals of St. Michael's, New York, for One Hundred Years, 1807-1907
Modern Christianity
Jesus Christ and the Old Commandments
The Religion of the Hebrews
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- Born
- 1852
New York City - Also known as
- John P. Peters
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Yale University
- Hopkins School
- Employment
- University of Pennsylvania
- Lived in
- New York City
- Died
- 1921
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on July 23, 2013
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