James Alan Montgomery

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Montgomery, c. 1930

James Alan Montgomery (June 13, 1866 – February 6, 1949) was an American

Aramaic) at the Philadelphia Divinity School and the University of Pennsylvania.[1][2]

He also served as president of the

Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis.[1][3]

Formative years

Montgomery was born in Germantown, Philadelphia, the eldest son of Thomas Harrison Montgomery, a businessman, and Anna Morton Montgomery. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1887, and the Philadelphia Divinity School in 1890.[1]

Career

An

Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis.[1][4]

He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1925.[5]

Books

  • Commentaries on the books of Kings and Daniel
    • A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Books of Kings, T. & T. Clark (1951)
    • A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Daniel, T. & T. Clark (1927)
  • The Samaritans: The Earliest Jewish Sect; Their History, Theology and Literature, J.C. Winston Company (1907)
  • Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur, University Museum (1913)
  • The Origin of the Gospel according to St. John, John C. Winston Co. (1923)
  • History of
    Yaballaha III
    , Nestorian Patriarch and of His Vicar Bar Sauma, Mongol Ambassador to the Frankish Courts at the End of the Thirteenth Century    , Columbia University Press (1927)
  • Arabia and the Bible, University of Pennsylvania Press (1934)
  • The Ras Shamra Mythological Texts, with Zellig S. Harris (1935)
  • The Holy City and Gehenna

References

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  5. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-08-17.
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