James Frederic McCurdy (1847–1935), born in Chatham, New Brunswick, was Professor of Oriental Languages, University College, Toronto, Canada.
[1] He studied at the University of New Brunswick, then at the University of Göttingen and University of Leipzig,[2] then Princeton Theological Seminary under William Henry Green.
His main area of study was the origins of ancient Hebrew and linguistic archeology.
[3] He was one of the scholars who held to the view that the ancient Israelites already had an advanced literary culture at the time of the migration from Canaan to Egypt.
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