James B. Nies Explained

James Buchanan Nies (22 November 1856 - 1922) was an American episcopal minister and Assyriologist.^[1] He was president of the American Oriental Society in 1921.^[2]

Selected publications

Articles

• "Notes on a Cross Jordan Trip Made October 23rd to November 7th, 1899", Palestine Exploration Quarterly, Vol. 33 (1901), No. 4, pp. 362–368.
• "The Opportunity of the American School of Archaeology in Palestine", Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 20, No. 1 (1901), pp. 31–37.
• "The Boomerang in Ancient Babylonia", American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 16, No. 1 (January–March 1914), pp. 26–32.
• "A Net Cylinder of Entemena", Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 36 (1916), pp. 137–139.

Books

• Historical, Religious and Economic Texts and Antiquities. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1920. (With Clarence E. Keiser)
• Ur Dynasty Tablets. Texts chiefly from Tello and Drehem written during the reigns of Dungi, Bur-Sin, Gimil-Sin, and Ibi-Sin &c. J.C. Hinrichs, Leipzig, 1920.

Further reading

• Keiser, C. E. (1918) Letters and contracts from Erech written in the neo-Babylonian period. Babylonian Inscriptions in the Collection of James B. Nies, Vol. 1. New Haven: Yale University Press.

External links

• https://babylonian-collection.yale.edu/publication-series/babylonian-inscriptions-collection-james-b-nies-bin
• https://www.loc.gov/resource/amedsaid1831.dw011/

Notes and References

1. News: 1922-06-20. REV. DR. JAMES B. NIES, ORIENT ALIST, DEAD; Former Brooklyn Pastor Was in Jerusalem Erecting His American School Building.. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-04-07. 0362-4331.
2. Clay. Albert T.. October 1922. In Memoriam James Buchanan Nies. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. en. 7. 1–3. 10.1086/BASOR1355223. 0003-097X. free.