Oriental and Biblical Studies: Collected Writings of E. A. Speiser

by E.A. Speiser

Rarely has mastery of a field been combined with such style and lucidity as in the writings of E. A. Speiser. For forty years before his death, in 1965, Dr. Speiser, the renowned author of the Anchor Bible Genesis, was a leading American orientalist. Speiser was at home in the modern as well as the ancient Near East and knew its many cultures intimately. His wide-ranging biblical studies are informed with a profound knowledge of Assyriology,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512813826
• ISBN13: 9781512813821
• Release Date: January 1967
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 616 Pages