John Punnett Peters

John Punnett Peters (December 16, 1852 – November 10, 1921) was an American Episcopal clergyman and Orientalist.

John Punnett Peters
Born	December 16, 1852 New York, New York
Died	November 10, 1921 (aged 68) New York, New York
Resting place	Saint Michael's Cemetery, Queens, New York[1]
Education	Hopkins School Yale University Yale Divinity School
Occupation	Clergyman, writer
Spouse(s)	Gabriella Brooke “Brooke” Forman Peters
Children	Thomas McClure Gabriella Brook John P. Peters Bryan Forman Frazier Forman Peters Joan St. Michael Lucretia McClure

Biography

John Punnett Peters was born in New York City on December 16, 1852.[2] He graduated from Hopkins School in 1868[3] and then from Yale in 1873. He was part of the school's first football team, and continued to play while he pursued graduate studies at Yale Divinity School.[4] He studied at Berlin and at Leipzig. He was professor of Old Testament languages and literature at the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School in Philadelphia (1884–91) and professor of Hebrew at the University of Pennsylvania (1885–93).[5] From 1888 to 1895, he conducted excavations at Nippur with John Henry Haynes and Hermann Volrath Hilprecht.[6] He became rector of St. Michael's Episcopal Church (Manhattan) in 1893 and served in that role until he retired in 1919. From 1904 to 1910, John Punnett Peters was also canon residentiary of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. He was active in promoting an intellectual approach to religion, social service, and positive relations between labor and management. Combined with his father and grandfather, the Peters served as rectors of St. Michael's for 99 years.[7]

Architect Frazier Forman Peters was his son. Another son, also named John Punnett Peters (December 4, 1887 – December 29, 1955), initially described the cerebral salt-wasting syndrome.

John Punnett Peters died from a heart attack in New York on November 10, 1921.[8]

Works

• Nippur, or Explorations and Adventures on the Euphrates (two volumes, 1897)
• The Old Testament and the New Scholarship (1901)
• Labor and Capital (1902)
• Early Hebrew Story: Its Historical Background (1904)
• With Hermann Thiersch, Painted tombs in the necropolis of Marissa (Marêshah) (1905)
• Annals of St. 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)
• The Psalms as Liturgies (1921)
• Bible and Spade (1922)

References

1. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24986522/john-punnett-peters
2. Herringshaw, Thomas William, ed. (1914). Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography. IV. American Publishers Association. p. 439. Retrieved July 23, 2020 – via Google Books.
3. Catalog of Trustees, Rectors, Instructors, and Alumni of Hopkins Grammar School. New Haven, CT: Dorman. 1902. p. 80.
4. http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1921-22.pdf
5. http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1921-22.pdf
6. Kuklick, Bruck. Puritans in Babylon: The Ancient Near East and American Intellectual Life, 1880-1930 Princeton University Press, 1996. ISBN 9780691656564
7. http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1921-22.pdf
8. "Rev. J. P. Peters Dies From Heart Attack". The New York Times. November 11, 1921. p. 13. Retrieved January 4, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.

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