The Old Testament and the New Scholarship. John P. Peters

John P. Peters and Nephrology.

John Punnett Peters, M.D., (18871955) can be said to have established the solid foundations ofmodem nephrology in an understanding of the chemistry of the body. The rebellious son of an Episcopal minister and noted Egyptologist, he was sent to a military preparatory school (Manlius) as a boy and then to Yale, where he majored in classics and won his varsity letter in diving. To earn money for h...

New Testament Use of the Old Testament

The present writer has counted 224 direct citations introduced by a definite formula indicating the writer purposed to quote. To these must be added seven cases where a second quotation is introduced by the conjunction “and,” and 19 cases where a paraphrase or summary rather than a direct quotation follows the introductory formula. We may further note at least 45 instances where the similarity ...

The moral dignity of John P. Peters.

John P. Peters and the committee of 430 physicians.

John Peters and his committee had a few basic goals. One was that local, state, and federal governments needed to provide money to construct facilities, support medical research and education, and care for the poor. And they wanted experts to call the shots. Over time, Peters and the committee got what they wanted for the most part: Hill-Burton money for building the hospitals, the rise of the ...

John P. Peters Symposium. June 6, 1998.