Ira Maurice Price Books

Ira Maurice Price was a distinguished professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago, joining its original faculty. His deep engagement with biblical history and ancient languages placed him among leading Orientalists of his era. Price dedicated himself to both rigorous academic study of Sumerian and Assyrian and to making Old Testament history accessible to a wider audience through his popular writings. He was also a prominent educator and a significant figure within the Baptist Church, committed to religious education and its organizations.