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''' George Aaron Barton''' (1859-1942) was a Canadian-born American scholar.

==Biography==
Born in Quebec, Canada. PhD (1891) at Harvard University. After teaching at Bryn Mawr College, he succeeded [[Morris Jastrow]] as Professor of Semitic languages and the history of religion at the University of Pennsylvania, from 1922 to 1931 and then as a professor emeritus from 1932 until his death.

==Works on Second Temple Judaism==

====Books====
*[[A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Ecclesiastes (1908 Barton), book]]
*[[Jesus of Nazareth: A Biography (1922 Barton), book]]
*[[Studies in New Testament Christianity (1928 Barton), book]]
*[[A History of the Hebrew People: From the Earliest Times to the Year 70 AD (1930 Barton), book]]
*[[The Apostolic Age and the New Testament (1936 Barton), book]]


==External links==
*[ Wikipedia]

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