- Alfred Jeremias
Alfred Karl Gabriel Jeremias (1864–1935) was a German Assyriologist and an expert on the
religions of the Ancient Near East .Life
In 1891 he published the first German translation of the
Epic of Gilgamesh . From 1890 until his death he was pastor of the Lutheran congregation inLeipzig , and from 1922 he was also professor atLeipzig University . He received honorary degrees in 1905 from Leipzig and in 1914 from theUniversity of Groningen .He was one of the prominent advocates of
Panbabylonism , explaining the origins of theHebrew Bible in terms ofBabylonian mythology .Literature
Publications
* Das Alte Testament im Lichte des Alten Orients, Leipzig, 4th ed. 1930
* Handbuch der altorientalischen Geisteskultur, Berlin, 2nd ed. 1929Obituaries
* E. Weidner, Archiv für Orientforschung Bd. 10 (1935/36), S. 195f.
* W. Baumgartner, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie Bd. 43 (1936), S. 299-301.External links
* [http://www.bbkl.de/j/Jeremias_a.shtml BBKL] (Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, ed. T. Bautz)
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