Description
Clay, Albert T., Amurru, The Home of the Northern Semites (The Sunday School Times Co.: Philadelphia. 1909)
Octavo. 217 pages. Dark blue cloth covered boards with title and author on spine in gilt.
Condition: VG, some darkening to textblock, wrinkling to lower spine. Some notes in pencil in a fine hand. Gift inscription “Bob from George Christmas 1927”
“Albert Tobias Clay was born at Hanover in York County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania during 1889 and from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg in 1892. He was subsequently ordained into the Lutheran ministry.
“His most important publications were Babylonian business and legal documents, especially Business Documents of Murashû Sons of Nippur (1898; et seq). Amurru, the Home of the Northern Semites (1909) shows the non-Babylonian origin of Israelite culture and religion. Other notable works included The empire of the Amorites (1919), An old Babylonian version of the Gilgamesh epic (1920), A Hebrew deluge story in cuneiform (1922) and The origin of Biblical traditions (1923)” – Wikipedia
