SEE BIOS OF BOTH MEN BELOW !! SIGNED BY SENDER "FROM G.A. BARTON, BRYN MAWR PA." POSTMARKED 1896, SENT TO BERNE SWITZERLAND -- 

GEORGE AARON BARTON (12 NOVEMBER 1859 – 28 JUNE 1942) WAS A CANADIAN AUTHOR, EPISCOPAL CLERGYMAN, AND PROFESSOR OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND THE HISTORY OF RELIGION.

BARTON WAS BORN ON 12 NOVEMBER 1859 IN EAST FARNHAM, CANADA EAST, CANADA. AFTER ATTENDING OAKWOOD SEMINARY IN UNION SPRINGS, NEW YORK. BARTON BECAME A MINISTER IN THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS AND CONTINUED HIS EDUCATION AT HAVERFORD COLLEGE, COMPLETING A MA IN 1885. HE TAUGHT IN RHODE ISLAND FROM 1884 TO 1889, THEN EARNED A PHD AT HARVARD AND BECAME A PROFESSOR OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES AT BRYN MAWR COLLEGE IN 1891.

IN 1922 BARTON MOVED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, WHERE HE WAS PROFESSOR OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND THE HISTORY OF RELIGION. HE RETIRED IN 1931 AND HELD THE TITLE OF PROFESSOR EMERITUS UNTIL HIS DEATH. HE SPECIALIZED IN MANY SUBJECTS, PARTICULARLY IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES. HIS MANY PUBLICATIONS COVER A WIDE RANGE OF TOPICS IN AREAS SUCH AS BIBLICAL STUDIES, RELIGION, AND LINGUISTICS ALONG WITH TRANSLATIONS OF SUMERIAN CUNEIFORMTABLETS.[3] HE WAS FASCINATED BY BIBLE ARCHEOLOGY AND WROTE A TEXT BOOK ON THE SUBJECT, PUBLISHED IN 1916, ALONG WITH OTHER PUBLICATIONS ON SIMILAR SUBJECTS.

BARTON SPECIALIZED IN TRANSLATIONS OF SUMERIAN & AKKADIAN TABLETS, SEALS AND CYLINDERS.[4] HE NOTABLY TRANSLATED A SET OF SUMERIAN TABLETS RECOVERED IN 1896–1898 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA'S EXCAVATIONAT NIPPUR INITIALLY LABELLED AS "MISCELLANEOUS BABYLONIAN INSCRIPTIONS", INCLUDING CREATION MYTHS KNOWN AS THE BARTON CYLINDER AND THE DEBATE BETWEEN SHEEP AND GRAIN.[5] THESE WERE LATER REVISED BY SAMUEL NOAH KRAMER.

BARTON DIED IN WESTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ON 28 JUNE 1942. ---------------------------------------------------------

MARTI, KARL ° (1855–1925), SWISS-GERMAN BIBLE SCHOLAR. MARTI STUDIED AT BASEL IN SWITZERLAND WITH EMIL KAUTZSCH, AND WITH FRANZ DELITZSCH AT LEIPZIG IN GERMANY. HE TAUGHT AT BASEL UNIVERSITY (1881–91) AND WAS PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY (FROM 1895) AND OF SEMITIC PHILOLOGY (FROM 1901) IN BERN(E) UNTIL HIS DEATH. MARTI WROTE CRITICAL STUDIES ON JEREMIAH (1889) AND ZECHARIAH (1892), AND A CONCISE GRAMMAR OF BIBLICAL ARAMAIC (1896; 19112). HE EDITED THE SECOND EDITION OF A. KAYSER'S THEOLOGIE DES ALTEN TESTAMENTS (1894; 19075), BEARING THE TITLE GESCHICHTE DER ISRAELITISCHEN RELIGION, A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF BIBLICAL RELIGION BASED ON THE *WELLHAUSEN-GRAF RECONSTRUCTION OF ISRAEL'S HISTORY. THOUGH A STAUNCH WELLHAUSENIAN WITH REGARD TO THE BIBLICAL TEXTS, MARTI PAID MORE ATTENTION TO THE ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN WORLD IN WHICH THEY WERE PRODUCED. IN THE KURZER HAND-COMMENTAR ZUM ALTEN TESTAMENT, OF WHICH HE WAS A CO-EDITOR, HE WROTE THE VOLUMES ON ISAIAH (1900), DANIEL (1901), THE MINOR PROPHETS (1904), AND THE INTRODUCTORY VOLUME, DIE RELIGION DES ALTEN TESTAMENTS UNTER DEN RELIGIONEN DES VORDEREN ORIENTS (1906; THE RELIGION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, 1907). IN THE SERIES DIE HEILIGE SCHRIFT DES ALTEN TESTAMENTS HE ANNOTATED DEUTERONOMY (1909), DANIEL, AND THE BOOKS OF JOEL, OBADIAH, ZECHARIAH, HAGGAI, AND MALACHI OF THE MINOR PROPHETS (1910). AMONG HIS NUMEROUS ARTICLES ON BIBLICAL STUDIES AND JUDAICA THERE IS A STRONGLY BIASED ONE ON THE NATURE OF THE CHRISTIAN MISSION TO THE JEWS ("ZUR JUDENMISSION," IN: KIRCHENBLATT FÜR DIE REFORMIERTE SCHWEIZ, 1886). YEHEZKEL *KAUFMANN WAS A STUDENT OF HIS. ---- SEE PHOTOS !! NO RESERVE, SHIPPING AND HANDLING IS $2.00 IN USA, OR $4.00 FOREIGN. I COMBINE SHIPPING COSTS ON MULTIPLE ITEM TO SAVE YOU MONEY.