Albert Kirk Grayson

Albert Kirk Grayson (* 1935 ) is a Canadian assyriologist . The main focus of his work is Assyria and Babylonia .

Grayson graduated from the University of Toronto with a Master of Arts degree in 1958. In 1962 he received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University . From 1962 to 1963 he was Research Assistant at the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Oriental Institute in Chicago and then until 1964 Assistant Professor at Temple University in Philadelphia . He then returned to the University of Toronto, where he became a full professor in 1972 . In 2000 he retired. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada .

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with Donald B. Redford (ed.): Papyrus and tablet. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs NJ 1973, ISBN 0-13-648394-1 .
Assyrian and Babylonian chronicles (= Texts from cuneiform sources 5, ISSN 0082-3759 ). Augustin, Locust Valley NY 1975.
The origin of prophecy. Seers, sothsayers, and prophets in the cradle of civilization (= The Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies. Bulletin 23, ISSN 0844-3416 ). The Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies, Toronto Ontario 1992.
Assyrian rulers of the early first millennium BC. 2 volumes. University of Toronto Press, Toronto et al .;
- Volume 1: 1114-859 BC. (= The royal inscriptions of Mesopotamia. Assyrian periods 2). 1991, ISBN 0-8020-5965-1 ;
- Volume 2: 858-745 BC. (= The royal inscriptions of Mesopotamia. Assyrian periods 3). 1996, ISBN 0-8020-0886-0 .

Grant Frame (Ed.): From the Upper sea to the Lower sea. Studies on the history of Assyria and Babylonia in honor of AK Grayson (= Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden. Vol. 101). Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, Leiden 2004, ISBN 90-6258-312-1 .