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A lawyer in New Orleans, LA, Edward Alexander Parsons briefly worked for the New Orleans Public Library in the 1930s and over a period of sixty years built a private collection, known as the ''Bibliotheca Parsoniana'', with over 8,000 manuscripts and 40,000 publications on the American South, which was acquired by the University of Texas at Austin in 1958. | A lawyer in New Orleans, LA, Edward Alexander Parsons briefly worked for the New Orleans Public Library in the 1930s and over a period of sixty years built a private collection, known as the ''Bibliotheca Parsoniana'', with over 8,000 manuscripts and 40,000 publications on the American South, which was acquired by the University of Texas at Austin in 1958. | ||
Parsons also published several historical books. | |||
==Works on Second Temple Judaism== | ==Works on Second Temple Judaism== |
Latest revision as of 14:27, 27 February 2012
Edward Alexander Parsons (1878-1962) was an American scholar.
Biography
A lawyer in New Orleans, LA, Edward Alexander Parsons briefly worked for the New Orleans Public Library in the 1930s and over a period of sixty years built a private collection, known as the Bibliotheca Parsoniana, with over 8,000 manuscripts and 40,000 publications on the American South, which was acquired by the University of Texas at Austin in 1958.
Parsons also published several historical books.