Lester Lee Grabbe

(1945-11-05) November 5, 1945

American

University of Hull

Claremont Graduate University

Life[edit]

An alumnus of Claremont Graduate University, he was a student of William H. Brownlee and frequent guest on both Viking Radio and Radio Humberside to discuss such topics as: the Ten Commandments, the Jewish festivals, the 4th of July, and Nostradamus and the millennium.[3] Grabbe delivered the 2008 Brownlee Memorial Lecture on the topic: Exit David and Solomon? The Current Debate on the History of Ancient Israel.[4]

Festschrift[edit]

At age sixty-five,[5] Grabbe was presented with a Festschrift, a memorial book, by editors Philip Davies and Diana Edelman, containing a collection of thirty essays by his colleagues and friends, offering "reflections on the practice and theory of history writing, on the current controversies and topics of major interest". The essays show Grabbe's influence on the field of biblical studies and history.[6]

Israel in transition : from late Bronze II to Iron IIa (c. 1250-850 B.C.E.) (2008)  978-0567027269 (Review)

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Can a 'history of Israel' be written?  978-0567043207

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A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period 1: Yehud: A History of the Persian Province of Judah (London/New York: T & T Clark International, 2004) xxi + 471 pp.  0-567-08998-3.

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Judaism from Cyrus to Hadrian: Vol. I: Persian and Greek Periods; Vol. II: Roman Period (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992) lx + 722 pp. British edition in one-volume paperback (London: SCM, 1994) xxxv + 722 pp. (Fortress)  0-8006-2620-6 (v. 1); ISBN 0-8006-2621-4 (v. 2).

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Exile and restoration revisited essays on the Babylonian and Persian periods in memory of

Peter R. Ackroyd

Leading captivity captive : "the Exile" as history and ideology  9781850759072

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Judaic Religion in the Second Temple Period: Belief and Practice from the Exile to Yavneh (London/New York: Routledge, 2000) xix + 424 pp.  978-0-415-21250-2

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Etymology in Early Jewish Interpretation: The Hebrew Names in Philo (Brown Judaic Studies 115; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988) xvi + 268 pp.  9781555400804

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Ancient Israel : what do we know and how do we know it? (2007, rev. ed 2017)  9780567032546

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As of October 2013, Grabbe had: 95 works in 234 publications in 3 languages and 7,650 library holdings listed in WorldCat.[7]

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