Bohl, Franz — Kanaanaer Und Hebraer

Leipzig, Germany, J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Extremely scarce in the trade, there being only one additional copy available on-line currently. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover exemplar of a German language social history of the Canaanites and Israelites and of the Jewish religion, history and culture. Little discernible wear to cloth over boards covers, gilt lettering over burgundy label at spine, bright interior, unmarked. The title continues: "Untersuchungen zur Vorgeschichte des Volkstums und der Religion Israels auf dem Boden Kanaans." His Wikipedia entry about him notes that "Franz 'Frans' Marius Theodor de Liagre Böhl (Vienna, Austria, 16 August 1882 – Milsbeek or Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 16 November 1976) was a Dutch professor of Assyriology and Hebrew" and who married severally and came to hold multiple positions of influence. Böhl studied Assyriology and Theology at the University of Leipzig and then at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. He wrote not one, but two Ph.D. dissertations in German: "Die Sprache der Amarnabriefe, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Kanaanismen (a 1909 linguistic study, with translated title: The language of the Amarna letters, with special reference to (linguistic) Canaanisms), and Kanaanäer und Hebräer, Untersuchungen zur Vorgeschichte des Volkstums und der Religion Israels auf dem Boden Kanaans (a 1911 Licentiate thesis, with translated title: Canaanites and Hebrews, investigations into the prehistory of the people and religion of Israel on Canaan soil" (Wikipedia). This is that. viii, 118 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine