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Stanley Arthur Cook
1873–1949
A Cambridge scholar of Hebrew and the ancient Near East, he wrote widely on biblical history, comparative religion, and Semitic studies. His work helped bring archaeology, language study, and historical criticism into conversation for general readers as well as specialists.
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The Religion of Ancient Palestine in the Second Millenium B.C.
by Stanley Arthur Cook
About the author
Born on April 12, 1873, Stanley Arthur Cook became an English Semitic scholar and historian of religion whose career was closely tied to Cambridge. He later served as Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge from 1932 to 1938.
Cook wrote on a wide range of subjects, including the religion of ancient Palestine, the laws of Moses and Hammurabi, and the broader study of religions. Reference works on his life also note that he taught religion, Hebrew, and Aramaic at Gonville and Caius College, and that he worked in editorial roles connected with The Cambridge Ancient History, Encyclopaedia Britannica, and the Palestine Exploration Fund.
He died in 1949, leaving behind a body of work that reflects an older but still interesting moment in the study of the Bible and the ancient Near East, when archaeology, philology, and comparative religion were being brought together in new ways.