George Ricker Berry

George Ricker Berry, D.D., Ph.D., (15 October 1865 24 May 1945) was an internationally known Semitic scholar and archaeologist, ordained Baptist minister, and Professor Emeritus of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School. on July 1, 1913.

Berry died on Thursday, 24 May 1945, in Cambridge, Massachusetts he was 79 years old.

Education Berry received his A.B. degree from Colby College in 1885, and graduated from Newton Theological Institution in 1889. He was one of the first students to attend the University of Chicago when the new school opened in 1892, where he studied Semitic languages. After earning his Ph.D. in 1895, he was an instructor there for a year. In 1896 he was appointed Instructor of Semitic Languages at Colgate University. When Assyriologist Nathaniel Schmidt left Colgate and went to Cornell that year, Berry continued Schmidt's history course. He was promoted to Professor in 1897 and in the following years expanded the Assyriological offerings at Colgate. Berry was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity.

Written works Book of Ruth in Encyclopedia Americana at WikiSource The Old Testament Among the Semitic Religions, 1910 Old and New in Palestine, 1939