John Gray (born June 9, 1913, in

Kelso, Scotland Kelso is a market town in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Roxburghshire, it lies where the rivers Tweed and Teviot have their confluence. The town has a population of 5,639 according to ...

; died April 1, 2000) was a

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

mythologist Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society. For scholars, this is very different from the vernacular usage of the term "myth" that refers to a belief that is not true. Instead, the ...

and author of books about the religion, mythology and the culture of ancient

Mesopotamia Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent. Today, Mesopotamia is known as present-day Iraq and forms the eastern geographic boundary of ...

and the

Near East The Near East () is a transcontinental region around the Eastern Mediterranean encompassing the historical Fertile Crescent, the Levant, Anatolia, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and coastal areas of the Arabian Peninsula. The term was invented in the 20th ...

. He was known for his 1969 book ''Near Eastern Mythology''. He was also Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages at the University of AberdeenData on french BNF
/ref> until his retirement in 1980.

Bibliography

* ''I & II Kings: A Commentary'', 1963 * ''The Krt Text in the Literature of Ras Shamra: A Social Myth of Ancient Canaan'', 1964 * ''Near Eastern Mythology : Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine'', 1969 * ''A History of Jerusalem'', 1969 * ''What About the Children?'', 1970 * ''The Biblical Doctrine of the Reign of God'', 1979 * ''Joshua, Judges, Ruth'', The New Century Bible Commentary, 1986

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1913 births 2000 deaths Mythographers American historians of religion Historians of Jews and Judaism Historians of Israel American male non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers People from Kelso, Scottish Borders {{UK-historian-stub