He was professor of Old Testament languages and literature at the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School in Philadelphia (1884 -91) and professor of Hebrew at the University of Pennsylvania (1885-93) and from 1888 to 1895 conducted excavations at Nippur with John Henry Haynes and Hermann Volrath Hilprecht.
The work involved four seasons of excavation between 1889 and 1900 and was led by John Punnett Peters, John Henry Haynes, and Hermann Volrath Hilprecht.
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