Alfred Jeremias

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Alfred Karl Gabriel Jeremias (1864–1935) was a German Assyriologist and an expert on the religions of the Ancient Near East.

Contents 1 Life 2 Literature 2.1 Publications 2.2 Obituaries 3 Weblinks

[edit] 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 in Leipzig, and from 1922 he was also professor at Leipzig University. He received honorary degrees in 1905 from Leipzig and in 1914 from the University of Groningen.

He was one of the prominent advocates of Panbabylonism, explaining the origins of the Hebrew Bible in terms of Babylonian mythology.

[edit] Literature

[edit] Publications

• Das Alte Testament im Lichte des Alten Orients, Leipzig, 4th ed. 1930
• Handbuch der altorientalischen Geisteskultur, Berlin, 2nd ed. 1929

[edit] Obituaries

• E. Weidner, Archiv für Orientforschung Bd. 10 (1935/36), S. 195f.
• W. Baumgartner, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie Bd. 43 (1936), S. 299-301.

[edit] Weblinks

• BBKL (Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, ed. T. Bautz)