James B. Pritchard

James B. Pritchard
James B. Pritchard
Born	James Bennett Pritchard; October 4, 1909
Died	January 1, 1997 (aged 87)
Nationality	American
Academic background
Alma mater	Asbury College ; University of Pennsylvania
Academic work
Discipline	Archaeology
Sub-discipline	Biblical archaeology; Phoenicians;
Institutions	Crozer Theological Seminary; Church Divinity School of the Pacific; University of Pennsylvania; University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology;
Notable works	Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (1950)

James Bennett Pritchard (October 4, 1909 – January 1, 1997) was an American archeologist whose work explicated the interrelationships of the religions of ancient Palestine, Canaan, Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon. Pritchard was honored with the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement in 1983 from the Archaeological Institute of America.

He had a long association with the University of Pennsylvania, where he was professor of religious thought and the first curator of Biblical archaeology at the University Museum. Pritchard's strength lay in setting the Bible within its broader cultural contexts in the Ancient Near East. Pritchard was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1973. In 1977 Pritchard received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Pritchard authored the book Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, which was released in three editions (1950, 1955, 1969), universally referred to as ANET, which provided reliable translations of texts that threw light on the context of Ancient Near Eastern history and the Hebrew Bible.

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