Rast, Walter E., 1930-2003 (Personal Name)

His Tradition ... 1971, c1972.

Numayra, 2020: ECIP title page (Walter E. Rast) data view (Walter E. Rast was codirector of the Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain in Jordan. He retired as Professor of Theology at Valparaiso University)

The Herald-Palladium website, viewed December 12, 2019: obituary of August 26, 2003 (Walter Emil Rast, Professor Emeritus Senior Research Professor at Valparaiso University, Ind., spent 35 years teaching biblical studies, archaeology and religions of the ancient Near East in the Department of Theology at Valparaiso. Professor Rast, who with his wife retired in 1996 to their Lake Michigan cottage in Glenn, Michigan, died of cancer at his home on Aug. 22, 2003. He served two terms as president of the American Center of Oriental Research in Amman. He held many professional positions in the American Schools of Oriental Research, and served as editor of their scholarly journal for eight years. Born in San Antonio, Texas. He graduated from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis (later partially united with the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago) with a Master of Divinity degree in 1955 and a Master of Sacred Theology in 1956. He received his Master of Arts from the University of Chicago in 1964 and his Ph.D. in 1966.) https://www.heraldpalladium.com/obituaries/walter-emil-rast/article_30414de3-1685-5766-98c8-a12bd42a46fc.html