Author:John Punnett Peters

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John Punnett Peters
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an American Episcopal clergyman and Orientalist; professor of Old Testament languages and literature at the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School in Philadelphia (1884-91) and professor of Hebrew at the University of Pennsylvania (1885-93) and from 1888 to 1895 conducted excavations at Nippur. 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

This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "J. P. Pe."

Works

"Anbar," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Bagdad (vilayet)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Bagdad (city)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (with Henry Creswicke Rawlinson)
"Basra," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Bismya," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Borsippa," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Calah," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Deir," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Erech," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Eridu," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Euphrates," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
"Hillah," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Hit," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Irak-Arabi," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
"Kerbela," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Kerkuk," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Khorsabad," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Lagash," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Larsa," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Nejef," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Nippur," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Tigris," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Ur," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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Author:John Punnett Peters

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