Ephraim Avigdor Speiser

Ephraim Avigdor Speiser (24 Januari 1902 – 15 Juni 1965) adalah seorang Asiriologi Amerika Yahudi kelahiran Polandia. Dia menemukan situs kuno Tepe Gawra pada 1927 dan mengawasi penggaliannya antara 1931 dan 1938.

Ephraim Avigdor Speiser
Lahir	(1902-01-24)24 Januari 1902 Skałat, Galisia
Meninggal	15 Juni 1965(1965-06-15) (umur 63) Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
Kebangsaan	Amerika
Pekerjaan	Harrison Research Fellow in Semitics at the University of Pennsylvania
Dikenal atas	penemuan situs kuno Tepe Gawra
Suami/istri	Sue Gimbel Dannenbaum
Latar belakang akademis
Alma mater	Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (Ph.D.)
Karya akademis
Disiplin ilmu	Asiriologi
Cabang disiplin ilmu	Arkeologi, komentator Alkitab
Lembaga	Universitas Pennsylvania
Mahasiswa ternama	Moshe Greenberg
Karya terkenal	Genesis (AYB)

Speiser menikahi Sue Gimbel Dannenbaum, cucu perempuan Charles Gimbel dari Gimbel Bersaudara. Mereka memiliki dua anak bersama, Jean dan Joel.

Karya terpilih

• Speiser, Ephraim Avigdor (1930). Mesopotamian Origins: the Basic Population of the Near East. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 
• ——— (1930). New Kirkuk Documents relating to Family Laws. New Haven. 
• ——— (1935). Excavations at Tepe Gawra. 1. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 
• ———; Pfeiffer, Robert H. (1936). One Hundred New Selected Nuzi Texts. 
• ——— (1941). Studies in the History of Science. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 
• ——— (1941). Introduction to Hurrian. New Haven: Dows Nies. 
• ——— (1947). The United States and the Near East. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press. 
• ——— (1950). "Akkadian Myths and Epics". Dalam James B. Pritchard. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. Princeton University Press. 
• ——— (1964). Genesis: Introduction, Translation and Notes (The Anchor Bible). New York: Doubleday. 
• ——— (1964). At the Dawn of Civilization. Rutgers University Press. 
• ——— (1967). Finkelstein, J. J.; Greenberg, Moshe, ed. Oriental and Biblical Studies: Collected Writings of E. A. Speiser. University of Pennsylvania Press.