Lester L. Grabbe (M / United States, Britain, 1945), scholar

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Lester L. Grabbe (b.1945) is an American scholar, at the University of Hull, England. Professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism, Religion and Theology, University of Hull.

Works

Festschriften

• The Historian and the Bible ~ Festschrift Lester L. Grabbe (2014 Davies, Vikander Edelman, et al.), edited volume

Books

• Etymology in Early Jewish Interpretation: The Hebrew Names in Philo (1988 Grabbe), book

• Judaism from Cyrus to Hadrian (1992 Grabbe), book

• Priests, Prophets, Diviners, Sages (1995 Grabbe), book

• An Introduction to First Century Judaism (1996 Grabbe), book

• Can A `History of Israel' Be Written? (1997 Grabbe), book

• Wisdom of Solomon (1997 Grabbe), book

• Ezra-Nehemiah (1998 Grabbe), book

• Judaic Religion in the Second Temple Period (2000 Grabbe), book

• A History of Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period. Vol. 1: Yehud: A History of the Persian Province of Judah (2004 Grabbe), book

• A History of Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period. Vol. 2: The Coming of the Greeks: The Early Hellenistic Period (2008 Grabbe), book

-- 2020s --

Lester L. Grabbe, A History of Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period. Vol. 3: The Maccabaean Revolt, Hasmonaean Rule, and Herod the Great, 175-4 BCE (London [England] and New York, NY: T&T Clark International, 2020)

"This is the third volume of the projected four-volume history of the Second Temple period, collecting all that is known about the Jews from the period of the Maccabaean revolt to Hasmonean rule and Herod the Great. Based directly on primary sources, the study addresses aspects such as Jewish literary sources, economy, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Diaspora, causes of the Maccabaen revolt, and the beginning and end of the Hasmonean kingdom and the reign of Herod the Great. Discussed in the context of the wider Hellenistic world and its history, and with an extensive up-to-date secondary bibliography, this volume is an invaluable addition to Lester Grabbe's in-depth study of the history of Judaism."--Publisher description.

Series -- Library of Second Temple Studies, 95.

Contents -- Part I: Introduction -- 1: Introduction -- Part II: Sources -- 2: Archaeology, Including Coins and Inscriptions -- 3: Jewish Literature -- 4: Greek and Latin Sources -- Part III: Society and Institutions -- 5: Economics -- 6: Sects and Movements -- 7: Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls -- 8: The Samaritans: From Sanballat to Vespasian -- 9: The Idumaeans, Arabs and Parthians -- 10: The Diaspora: Jewish Communities Outside Judah from Alexander to Herod (330 BCE to 4 CE) -- 11: Causes of the Maccabaean Revolt -- 12: Religion : Temple, Scripture, Belief and Practice -- Part IV: Historical Synthesis -- 13: Background: The Ptolemies, the Seleucids, and the Romans -- 14: Events Preceding the Maccabaean Revolt (175-168 BCE): A New Constitution for Jerusalem -- 15: The Maccabean Revolt To the Death of Judas (170-161 BCE) -- 16: The Hasmonaean Kingdom: From Jonathan to Alexandra Salome (161 to 67 BCE) -- 17: End of the Hasmonaean Kingdom and the Beginning of Roman Domination (67-40 BCE) -- 18: The Reign of Herod the Great (40-4 BCE) -- Part V: Conclusions -- 19: Judaism From Onias III to Herod the Great-A Holistic Perspective -- Bibliography

Edited volumes

• Leading Captivity Captive: The Exile as History and Tradition (1998 Grabbe), edited volume

• The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldwiew (2016 Grabbe, Boccaccini, Zurawski), edited volume

Contributions to edited volumes

• A Dan(iel) for All Seasons: For Whom was Daniel Important'? / The Book of Daniel: Composition and Reception (2001 Collins/Flint), edited volume
• Did all Jews think alike?: "Covenant" in Philo and Josephus in the context of Second temple Judaic religion / The Concept of the Covenant in the Second Temple Period (2003 Porter/De Roo), edited volume
• Digging among the Roots of the Groningen Hypothesis / Enoch and Qumran Origins (2005 Boccaccini), edited volume
• Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man (2007 Boccaccini), edited volume
• Jubilees and the Samaritan Traditon / Enoch and the Mosaic Torah (2009 Boccaccini/Ibba), edited volume