The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

A much respected academic analysis of religion in Babylonia and Assyria.

 

Morris Jastrow (1861-1921) was an American Orientalist. He was born in Warsaw, graduated at Penn in 1881, travelled to Europe and studied at Leipzig and Paris. He returned to the United States, and became professor of Semitic languages and librarian at Penn. He became president of the American Oriental Society in 1915.