Background
Peters, John Punnett was born on December 16, 1852 in New York, United States. Son of Thomas McClure and Alice Clarissa (Richmond) Peters.
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John Punnett Peters
John Punnett Peters was an American Episcopal clergyman and Orientalist, born in New York City.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1873, Doctor of Philosophy, 1876. University of Berlin and Leipzig, 1879-1883. Doctor of Divinity, Yale, 1895.
Doctor of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1895.
Career
Thomas March Forman, August 13, 1881. Deacon, 1876, priest, 1877, Protestant Episcopal Church. Tutor, Yale, 1876-1879.
In charge Saint John's Church, Dresden, Germany, 1881-1883.
Professor Old Testament language and literature, P.E. Division School, 1884-1891. Professor Hebrew, University of Pennsylvania, 1885-1893.
In charge expedition of University of Pennsylvania to Babylonia, conducting excavations at Nippur, 1888-1895. Rector Saint Michael’s Church, New York, 1893-1919.
Canon residentiary, Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, 1904-1910.
Later rector emeritus of Saint Michael’s Church, and professor New Testament literature and languages, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee Author: Scriptures, Hebrew and Christian (English title—The Bible for Home and School), Volumes I and II, 1886, 1889. Nippur, or Explorations and Adventures on the Euphrates, 1897. The Old Testament and the New Scholarship, 1901.
Early Hebrew Story, 1904.
Some Tombs in the Necropolis of Marissa (with Doctor Hermann Thiersch), 1905. Annals of Saint Michael’s, New York, for One Hundred Years, 1807-1907, 1907.
Modern Christianity, 1909. Jesus Christ and the Old Commandments, 1913.
The Religion of the Hebrews, 1914.
Animals’ Christmas Tree, 1916. Translator and Continuator: Political History of Recent Times (with appendix covering period 1876-1881), 1882. Editor: Diary of David McClure, 1899.
Labor and Capital, 1902.
Collaborator: The Bible as Literature, 1896. The Universal Anthology, 1899.
The Historian’s History of the World, 1908. Active in social problems in New York City.
President Independent Club, 1896-1916.
Chairman Committee of Fourteen, 1905-1916. Address: New York, New New York
Achievements
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John Punnett Peters has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.
Connections
Married Gabriella Brooke, daughter
- Father:
- Thomas McClure Peters
- Mother:
- Alice Clarissa (Richmond) Peters
- Spouse:
- Gabriella Brooke
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Born
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Died
November 11, 1921 (aged 68) -
Nationality
United States -
Religion
Christianity