James Alan Montgomery (June 13, 1866 – February 6, 1949) was an American
Episcopal
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clergyman,
Oriental scholar
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, and
biblical scholar
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who was professor of
Old Testament
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Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis
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Thomas Harrison Montgomery
Thomas Harrison Montgomery (February 27, 1830 – April 4, 1905) was an American businessman and writer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was best known for his genealogical and historical writings and his presidency of the American Fire Insura ...
, a businessman, and Anna Morton Montgomery. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1887, and the Philadelphia Divinity School in 1890.
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
Zellig Sabbettai Harris (; October 23, 1909 – May 22, 1992) was an influential American linguist, mathematical syntactician, and methodologist of science. Originally a Semiticist, he is best known for his work in structural linguistics and dis ...