Ephraim Avigdor Speiser
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- PhD Oriental Studies University of Pennsylvania
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ephraim Avigdor Speiser was a Polish-born American Assyriologist and translator of the Torah. He discovered the ancient site of Tepe Gawra in 1927 and supervised its excavation between 1931 and 1938.
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Published Works
- Excavations at Tepe Gawra (1935) (106)
- Southern Kurdistan in the Annals of Ashurnasirpal and Today (102)
- Introduction to Hurrian (1943) (79)
- Introduction to Hurrian, Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research, XX (1942) (61)
- Ur Excavations, Texts. I: Royal Inscriptions (55)
- Hurrians and Subarians (1948) (52)
- The Alalakh Tablets (1954) (51)
- One Hundred New Selected Nuzi Texts (1938) (41)
- Ethnic Movements in the near East in the Second Millennium B. C. The Hurrians and Their Connections with the Habiru and the Hyksos (1931) (41)
- The Most Ancient East (40)
- The Phonology and Morphology of Royal Achaemenid Elamite (1956) (40)
- The Pottery of Palestine from the Earliest Times to the End of the Early Bronze Age (1938) (34)
- The Anchor Bible: Genesis (1965) (30)
- Joint Excavation at Tell Beit Mirsim (1932) (29)
- "People" and "Nation" of Israel (1960) (29)
- The Alishar Hüyük, seasons of 1930-1932 (1939) (28)
- New Kirkuk Documents Relating to Family Laws (28)
- Excavations at Tepe Gawra. Volume I (1935) (26)
- Some Factors in the Collapse of Akkad (1952) (26)
- The Name Phoinikes (1936) (24)
- A Note on Alphabetic Origins (1951) (23)
- The Case of the Obliging Servant (1954) (23)
- A Letter of Saushshatar and the Date of the Kirkuk Tablets (20)
- Tepe Gawra. Letter of March 29, 1931, from Professor Speiser to the President of Dropsie College and the Director of the American School at Baghdad (1931) (20)
- A New Factor in the History of the Ancient East (20)
- Mesopotamian Origins. The Basic Population of the near East (1930) (20)
- Nuzi or Nuzu (1955) (19)
- The Cuneiform Tablets from Tell Billa (1938) (19)
- The United States and the near East (1947) (14)
- The Shibboleth Incident (Judges 12:6) (1942) (13)
- The Idea of History in the Ancient near East (1955) (13)
- Studies in the History of Science (1941) (11)
- Studies in Semitic Formatives (1936) (9)
- The Pitfalls of Polarity (1938) (9)
- Of Shoes and Shekels (1940) (8)
- Oriental and Biblical Studies (1967) (8)
- "Coming" and "Going" at the "City" Gate (1956) (7)
- Leviticus and the Critics (1967) (7)
- The Wife-Sister Motif in the Patriarchal Narratives (1963) (7)
- Census and Ritual Expiation in Mari and Israel (1958) (7)
- I Know Not the Day of My Death (1955) (6)
- Sennacherib's Aqueduct at Jerwan. Oriental Institute Publications, Vol. XXIV (1936) (6)
- Oriental and Biblical Studies: Collected Writings of E. A. Speiser (1967) (6)
- The "Elative" in West-Semitic and Akkadian (1952) (6)
- 'Ed in the Story of Creation (1955) (6)
- Qadesh: Mission Archeologique A Tell Nebi Mend, 1921-1922 (6)
- An Intrusive Hurro-Hittite Myth (1942) (5)
- The Durative Hithpa'el: A tan-Form (1955) (5)
- Background and Function of the Biblical Nasi (1967) (5)
- The United States and the Near East@@@Palestine: A Study of Jewish, Arab, and British Policies (1947) (4)
- Material Remains of the Megiddo Cult. Oriental Institute Publications, Vol. XXVI (1936) (4)
- An Angelic "Curse": Exodus 14:20 (1960) (4)
- Preliminary Excavations at Tepe Gawra (4)
- Sultantepe Tablet 38 73 and Enūma Eliš III 69 (1957) (4)
- The Pronunciation of Hebrew According to the Transliterations in the Hexapla (1926) (4)
- The Statue of Idrimi (1951) (3)
- Phonetic Method in Hurrian Orthography (1940) (3)
- The Dialect of the Nuzu Tablets (1938) (3)
- 'Iraq: A Study in Political Development (1939) (3)
- Personal Names from Cuneiform Inscriptions of Cappadocia (3)
- On Some Articles of Armor and Their Names (1950) (2)
- A Note on the Derivation of šumma (1947) (2)
- Selected "Kirkuk" documents (2)
- James Alan Montgomery (1866-1949) (1949) (2)
- Akkadian Documents from Ras Shamra (1955) (2)
- The Biblical Idea of History in its Common Near Eastern Setting (1957) (1967) (2)
- The Hebrew Origin of the First Part of the Book of Wisdom (1924) (2)
- A New Volume of Nuzi Texts (1929) (2)
- The Ethnic Background of the Early Civilizations of the Near East (1933) (2)
- Notes to Recently Published Nuzi Texts (1935) (1)
- A Figurative Equivalent for Totality in Akkadian and West-Semilic (1934) (1)
- The World History of the Jewish People. First Series, Ancient Times. Volume I, At the Dawn of Civilization: A Background of Biblical History (1965) (1)
- The Joint Excavation at Tepe Gawra. January and June Reports (1932) (1)
- An Analogue to 2 Sam 1:21, 'AQHT 1 44-45 (1950) (1)
- The Syllabic Transcription of Ugaritic [h] and [ḥ] (1964) (1)
- James Henry Breasted 1865-1935 (1936) (1)
- The Pronunciation of Hebrew Based Chiefly on the Transliterations in the Hexapla (Continued) (1933) (1)
- 'Damascus' as Ša-imērišu@@@'Damascus' as Sa-imerisu (1951) (1)
- An Inscribed Lance-Butt from Tell Billah V (1933) (1)
- New Kirkuk Documents Relating to Security Transactions (1932) (1)
- The Translation and Etymology of Uṣurtu (1924) (1)
- A Significant New Will from Nuzi (1963) (1)
- Studies in Hurrian Grammar (1939) (1)
- First Report on the Current Assyrian Campaign (1936) (1)
- Ancient Mesopotamia and the Beginnings of Science (1940) (1)
- The Bearing of the Excavations at Tell Billa and at Tepe Gawra upon the Ethnic Problems of Ancient Mesopotamia (1932) (1)
- Three Reports on the Joint Assyrian Expedition (1937) (1)
- Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Vol. XVI (1938) (1)
- The Stem PLL in Hebrew (1963) (1)
- Vocalic N in Assyrian (1925) (1)
- The Arab island : the Middle East 1939-1943 (1946) (1)
- The "Chalice" Ware of Northern Mesopotamia and Its Historical Significance (1932) (1)
- Ancient Mesopotamia: a light that did not fail (1951) (1)
- A Rare Brick of Sennacherib (1934) (1)
- Secondary Developments in Semitic Phonology: An Application of the Principle of Sonority (1926) (1)
- The Nuzi Tablets Solve a Puzzle in the Books of Samuel (1938) (1)
- The Semantic Range of dalāpu (1951) (1)
- The Etymology of Meschino and Its Cognates (1935) (1)
- New Assyrian Eponyms from the Tablets of Tell Billah (1933) (0)
- Progress of the Joint Expedition to Mesopotamia (1938) (0)
- An Important Discovery (1927) (0)
- New Discoveries at Tepe Gawra and Khafaje (1937) (0)
- Publications of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Excavations at Tepe Gawra. Vol. I (1935) (0)
- IRAQ: Journal of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq (Gertrude Bell Memorial) . Volume I, part I, April 1934. Oxford University Press. 18 s. (1934) (0)
- Addendum on the Phrase טוח רעו םח ןמ: A Figurative Equivalent for Totality in Akkadian and West-Semilic@@@Addendum on the Phrase [Tet][Vav][Het] [Resh][Ayin][Vav] [Final Mem][Het] [Final Nun][Mem]: A Figurative Equivalent for Totality in Akkadian and West-Semilic (1934) (0)
- Report of the School in Baghdad (1943) (0)
- Progress of the Joint Assyrian Expedition (1937) (0)
- Excavations in Northeastern Babylonia (1937) (0)
- The Economic Development of Iraq —Report of a Mission Organized at the Request of the Government of Iraq by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1952. Pp. xix, 463. Maps and figures. $5.00. (1954) (0)
- Babylonian Menologies and the Semitic Calendars. The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy, 1933 (1936) (0)
- CHAPTER I. THE BACKGROUND (1930) (0)
- Impression of a Cylinder Seal from Gawara VI (1934) (0)
- Gilgamesh VI 40 (1958) (0)
- Bibliography of James Alan Montgomery (1950) (0)
- The Biblical Idiom pānīm hōleḵīm (1967) (0)
- Excavations at Nuzi, vol. II: The Archives of Shilwateshup, Son of the King. Harvard Semitic Series, vol. IX (1932) (0)
- The Oriental Institute (1934) (0)
- The Etymology of ארמון (0)
- Professor Pfeiffer's "State Letters of Assyria" (1935) (0)
- Nuzi Seal Impressions (1947) (0)
- CHAPTER VI. OTHER CONTACTS–CONCLUSION (1930) (0)
- The Idea of History in Ancient Mesopotamia (1955) (1967) (0)
- Essays in memory of E. A. Speiser (1969) (0)
- Progress in the Study of the Hurrian Language (1939) (0)
- Some Prehistoric Antiquities from Mesopotamia (1929) (0)
- CHAPTER III. THE EARLY CIVILIZATIONS OF THE NEAR EAST (1930) (0)
- Oriental Studies and Society (1946) (0)
- On Some Important Synchronisms in Prehistoric Mesopotamia (1932) (0)
- A New Volume by Jensen on the Gilgamesh Epic (1931) (0)
- Authority and Law in Mesopotamia (1954 ) (1967) (0)
- George Aaron Barton 1859-1942 (1942) (0)
- New Finds at Tepe Gawra (1937) (0)
- Note on Amos 5:26 (1947) (0)
- A New Hurrian Pronominal Form (1940) (0)
- YDWN, Gen 6:3 (1956) (0)
- Recent Hittite Literature (1929) (0)
- E. A. Speiser: An Appreciation* (1967) (0)
- An Assyrian Document of the Ninth Century B. C. from Tell Billah (1934) (0)
- CHAPTER II. ELAM AND SUMER IN THE EPIGRAPHICAL SOURCES (1930) (0)
- The Season's Work at Tepe Gawra (1935) (0)
- CHAPTER IV. THE LULLU AND THE GUTI (0)
- Works on Oriental Art and Archaeology (1929) (0)
- The United States and the Near East.@@@Saudi Arabia: With an Account of the Development of Its Natural Resources. (1947) (0)
- The Beginnings of Civilazation in Mesopotamia (1941) (0)
- Report of the Director of the Baghdad School (1935) (0)
- Notes on Hurrian Phonology (1938) (0)
- A Note on Certain Akkadian Terms for Door-Equipment (1948) (0)
- Closing the Gap at Tepe Gawra (1946) (0)
- The Hyksos Reconsidered. The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, No. 18 (1940) (0)
- Comments on Recent Studies in Akkadian Grammar (1953) (0)
- First Steps in Mesopotamian Archaeology (1933) (0)
- Recent Assyriological Publications of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (1934) (0)
- Sumerian and Semitic Texts (1927) (0)
- The Name Phoinikes (1936) (1967) (0)
- Excavations at Nuzi, Volume V: The Palace and Temple Archives (1952) (0)
- On Some Recent Finds from Tepe Gawra (1936) (0)
- University of Chicago Survey@@@The Oriental Institute (1934) (0)
- The Verb SḤR in Genesis and Early Hebrew Movements (1961) (0)
- Mesopotamia Past and Present (1934) (0)
- CHAPTER V. THE KASSITES AND THE HURRIANS (1930) (0)
- In Memoriam Roger T. O'Callaghan, S. J. (1954) (0)
- Speiser's Excavations at Tepe Gawra (1936) (0)
- Ur Excavations: a review (1934) (0)
- New Light on the Sumerians (1938) (0)
- Religion and Government in the Ancient Near East (1967) (0)
- The Megiddo Water System. Oriental Institute Publications, Vol. XXXII (1936) (0)
- DAVIS, S. Race-Relations in Ancient Egypt: Greek, Egyptian, Hebrew, Roman. Pp. xiii, 176. New York: Philosophical Li brary, 1952. $4.50 (1952) (0)
- Mesopotamian Miscellanea (1937) (0)
- When the Past Broke its Silence (1935) (0)
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