John P Peters

Biographic Data

ID1440240
NAMEJohn P Peters
GIVEN NAMESJohn P
FAMILY NAMEPeters
SIGNATUREPETERS J P
AFFILIATIONSSt. Ann's Episcopal Church
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1901
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1939
H-INDEX1

  • Economic Aspects of Medical Service

    John P PetersARTICLESocial Service Review1939

  • Notes and Queries

    John P Peters, A J RustumARTICLEPalestine Exploration Quarterly1921

  • The Tower of Babel at Borsippa

    John P PetersARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1921

  • Notes and Suggestions on the Early Sumerian Religion and Its Expression

    John P PetersARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1921

  • The Home of the Semites

    John P PetersARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1919

    ACCORDING TO THE PREVALENT VIEW the home of the Semites is Arabia, which has been like a seething caldron, boiling over at intervals and emitting its surplus population in successive eruptions, poured out as the lid was forced up. This theory, which has been worked out with beautiful symmetry, is represented in almost all the histories of Hither Asia of the last quarter or even half century, and I have myself presented it as established fact in m…

  • Hebrew Psalmody

    Open AccessJohn P PetersARTICLEHarvard Theological Review1916

    Professor Kent has undertaken to provide English-reading students of the Old Testament with a complete library of hand-books for the study of the contents of that great collection of Hebrew writings, which shall be of scientific value; not necessarily presenting new and original research by the author, but representing the best results of modern scholarship. The present volume, the fifth in this series, deals with the lyric poetry of the Old Test…

  • Excavations in Persia

    Open AccessJohn P PetersARTICLEHarvard Theological Review1915

    From the head of the Persian Gulf extend two great plains, the one stretching northwestward along the Tigris and Euphrates, the other northeastward along the Karoun. These two plains constitute Turkish and Persian Arabistan respectively. They were the seat of one of the earliest and most highly developed civilizations of the world, or perhaps rather of two competing and rival civilizations. Once the region teemed with a vast population. Now it is…

  • The Cock

    John P PetersARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1913

  • "Suppression of the "Raines Law Hotels

    Open AccessJohn P PetersARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1908Cited by: 1

    The present liquor tax law, commonly known as the Raines law, from its author and promoter in the legislature of the State of New York, Senator John Raines, was enacted in the year I896. This law provided for local option with regard to the sale of liquor in the country districts and small towns, but not in the large cities of the state. It was otherwise a high license law, and in the City of New York the license for the sale of liquor to be drun…

  • The Nippur Library

    John P PetersARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1905

  • The Palace at Nippur Babylonian, Not Parthian

    John P PetersARTICLEAmerican Journal of Archaeology1905

  • The Necropolis of Mareshah

    John P Peters, Hermann ThierschARTICLEPalestine Exploration Quarterly1902

  • Notes on Recent Theories of the Origin of the Alphabet

    John P PetersARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1901