Albert T. Clay

Albert Tobias Clay (December 4, 1866 – September 14, 1925) was an American professor, historian and Semitic linguist.

He graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania during 1889 and from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg in 1892.

In 1895–99, he returned as lecturer in Semitic archaeology after being an instructor in Old Testament theology at the Chicago Lutheran Seminary.

Amurru, the Home of the Northern Semites (1909) shows the non-Babylonian origin of Israelite culture and religion.

Other notable works included The empire of the Amorites (1919), An old Babylonian version of the Gilgamesh epic (1920), A Hebrew deluge story in cuneiform (1922) and The origin of Biblical traditions (1923).