Morris Jastrow, Jr.
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Morris Jastrow, Jr., Ph. D. (August 13, 1861 – June 22, 1921) was an American Orientalist, the son of Marcus (Morris) Jastrow.
[edit] Life
He was born in Warsaw, came to Philadelphia in 1866, graduated at Penn in 1881, traveled to Europe and studied at Leipzig and Paris, returned to the United States, and became professor of Semitic languages and librarian at Penn.
He became president of the American Oriental Society in 1915.
[edit] Works
Jastrow wrote:
- The Religion of the Babylonians and Assyrians (1898); German translation, 1902; new edition, volume i., 1905; volume ii, 1912)
- The Study of Religion (1902)
- Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria (1911)
- Hebrew and Babylonian Traditions, Haskell Lectures at Oberlin (1913; revised, 1914)
- The Civil Law of Babylonia and Assyria (1915)
- The War and the Bagdad Railroad (1917) - ASIN: B0006D8OSQ
- The War and the Coming Peace (1918)
- A Gentle Cynic, an abbreviated translation of the Book of Koholeth or Ecclesiastes, (1919)
- The Eastern Question and its Solution (1920)
He edited the Aramaic text of the grammatical treatises of Abu Zakariyya Hayyug (1897); Selected Essays of James Darmesteter (with a memoir; translation of the essays by Mrs. Morris Jastrow, Jr., 1895); and a series of Handbooks on the History of Religion.
