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Elihu Grant (1873 – November 2, 1942) was an American scholar and writer on

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. Grant was ordained

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minister in 1900, and between 1901 and 1904 he was superintendent of the American Friends Schools in

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and

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. Returning to the US he was a professor of biblical literature at

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from 1907 to 1917, and thereafter at

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until his retirement in 1938. Between 1928 and 1933 he directed four campaigns of excavations at Ain Shems (Beth Shemesh), and ''

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'' magazine reported that he found jugs and vases which represented a

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culture. One of his lifelong interest was the life of the Palestinian

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, an interest which started when he first worked for the American Friends School, and which resulted in three books. The 1907 book ''The Peasantry of Palestine: The Life, Manners, and Customs of the Village'' is described as "a vividly accurate portrait of rural life in Palestine".

Books (partial list)

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Irving Francis Wood Irving Francis Wood (1861–1934) was an American biblical scholar. Professor Wood was born at Walton, New York. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1885 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and taught at Jaffna College, Ceylon, until 1889. Woo ...

, Elihu Grant (1916):
The Bible as Literature : An Introduction
', New York, NY, on archive.net, also: Kessinger Publishing, 2006 reprint. *Elihu Grant (1918):
Cuneiform Documents in the Smith College Library
', Haverford, Pennsylvania *——— (1920):
The Orient in Bible Times
', J. B. Lippincott Company, *——— (1921):
The People of Palestine
' archive.org *——— (1922): ''A New Era In Palestine Exploration'', GPO, Washington, pp. 541–547, with 7 plates, offprint, the Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year Ending June 30, *——— (1929): '' Beth Shemesh (Palestine) : Progress of the Haverford Archaeological expedition'', *——— (1931): ''Ain Shems Excavations (Palestine) 1928-1931. Part 1. (With an Historical Chapter by Irving F. Wood)'', Haverford *——— (1932): ''Ain Shems Excavations (Palestine) 1928-31. Part 2''. Haverford *——— (1934): ''Rumeileh: Being Ain Shems Excavations (Palestine), Part III (Biblical and Kindred Studies)'', Haverford College. *——— (1938): ''Ain Shems Excavations (Palestine). Part 4: Pottery'', Haverford *——— (1938): ''Palestine Today,'' Baltimore *——— (1939): ''Ain Shems Excavations (Palestine), Part V (Text)'', Haverford College, *——— (1940): ''Palestine Our Holy Land'', J. H. Furst Company, Baltimore, Maryland, *——— (2005): ''People of Palestine: An Enlarged Edition of the Peasantry of Palestine, Life, Manners and Customs of the Village'', Wipf & Stock, Reprint

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