He served as head of the graduate department of religious history at Philadelphia Divinity School from 1918 to 1935, and was a professor of theology at the University of the South.
Yerkes died in Evanston, Illinois, where he had been director of religious education for the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago from 1947 until his 1952 retirement.
[1] He wrote Sacrifice in Greek and Roman Religions and Early Judaism, a monograph on the origins of religious sacrifice translated into French in 1955.
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