Education
Kraeling attended the Lutheran Seminary of Philadelphia from 1909 to 1912, an then was associate professor of Old Testament at Union Seminary.
Kraeling attended the Lutheran Seminary of Philadelphia from 1909 to 1912, an then was associate professor of Old Testament at Union Seminary.
He came from an extended German-American Lutheran family. 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.