Lester L. Grabbe

Si Lester L. Grabbe ay isang retiradong iskolar at  Propesor Emeritus ng Tanakh(Bibliyang Hebro) sa Hebrew Bible at maagang Hudaismo sa  University of Hull, England. Bilang historyan ng sinaunang Hudaismo, siya ay sumulat ng ilang mga pamantayang pagtrato tungkol dito. Kanyang itinatag ang European Seminar on Methodology in Israel's History at naglimag sa mga serye sa  European Seminar in Historical Methodology. Bago magretiro, nilikha niya at nagturo tungkol sa Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust at Religious Sectarianism in History and the Modern World.

Siya ay nagtapos sa Claremont Graduate University at estudyante ni William H. Brownlee at karaniwang panauhin sa Viking Radio at Radio Humberside kung saan tinalakay niya ang Sampung Utos, mga pistang Hudyo, Nostradamus at millennium.Si  Grabbe ay nagbigay ng Pagtururo noong 2008  sa Brownlee Memorial Lecture tungkol sa paksang: Labas David at Solomon? Ang Kasalukuyang Debate Tungkol sa Kasaysayan ng Sinaunang Israel.

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Si Grabbe ay mayroon 95 akda sa 234 publikasyon sa 3 wika  at 7,650 library holding na nakatala sa WorldCat.

Selected Titles
Israel in transition : from late Bronze II to Iron IIa (c. 1250-850 B.C.E.) (2008)  (Review )
Can a 'history of Israel' be written? 
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. .
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)  (v. 1);  (v. 2).
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 
Judaic Religion in the Second Temple Period: Belief and Practice from the Exile to Yavneh (London/New York: Routledge, 2000) xix + 424 pp. 
Etymology in Early Jewish Interpretation: The Hebrew Names in Philo (Brown Judaic Studies 115; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988) xvi + 268 pp. 
Ancient Israel : what do we know and how do we know it? (2007, rev. ed 2017) 

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Priests, Prophets, Diviners, Sages: A Socio-historical Study of Religious Specialists in Ancient Israel (Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1995) xviii + 261 pp. 
An Introduction to First Century Judaism (1996 Grabbe), 
Wisdom of Solomon (1997 Grabbe), 
Ezra and Nehemiah (Readings; London: Routledge, 1998) x + 209 pp. ,  (paper)
 
 
 
An Introduction to Second Temple Judaism : history and religion of the Jews in the time of Nehemiah, the Maccabees, Hillel and Jesus (2010 Grabbe), 

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