Bidspirit auction | Alfred Jeremias Das alte Testament

Alfred Jeremias Das alte Testament im Lichte des alten Orients, illustr., 1930, Ex Libris, In German - Alfred Jeremias Das alte Testament im Lichte des alten Orients, illustr., 1930, Ex Libris, In German Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, 1930, XVI, + 851,+ (5) pp.+ folding map. Fourth (German) completely revised edition (7th thousand). With 293 illustrations, 3 maps. German and Hebrew index of motifs. Index of New Testament passages. Illustrated.Exlibris of Dr. E.Schwarcz. Condition: Soft cover worn, rubbed, chipped, soiled, detached, torn to 2 parts to rear hinge of spine. Spine rubbed worn, with tears and missing parts upper and below. Title page detached, with missing parts to upper edge and small tears to edges. Binding started getting loose and almost detached to 2 parts. Weight: 1720 gr. Alfred Karl Gabriel Jeremias (24 February 1864 in Chemnitz, Kingdom of Saxony – 11 January 1935) was a German pastor, Assyriologist and an expert on the religions of the ancient Near East. 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.