Emil Kraeling
Emil Gottlieb Heinrich Kraeling was an American Lutheran biblical scholar and Aramaicist. He came from an extended German-American Lutheran family. Kraeling attended the Lutheran Seminary of Philadelphia from 1909 to 1912, and then was associate professor of Old Testament at Union Seminary. Among his best known works was a study of Job The Book of the Ways of God. In 1937 he published papers in agreement with Henri Frankfort identifying a woman in the Burney Relief as the Lilith of later Jewish mythology.
Selected works
The Old Testament since the ReformationOur Living Bible co-authored with Michael Avi Yonah. Old Testament text by M. Avi-Yonah. New Testament text by Emil G. Kraeling. With illustrations.The Brooklyn Museum Aramaic Papyri: New Documents Of The Fifth Century B. C. From The Jewish Colony Of ElephantineThe ProphetsThe DisciplesI Have Kept the Faith; The Life of the Apostle PaulAram and Israel: The Arameans in Syria and Mesopotamia The Four Gospels The Book of the Ways of GodEditor:
- ''Rand McNally Historical Atlas of the Holy Land''