Michael Anthony Knibb (14 December 1938 – 6 December 2023) was an English biblical scholar and academic. He was

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from 1997 to 2001. Born 14 December 1938, he completed BD and

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degrees at King's College. He was appointed lecturer in

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there in 1964 and was promoted to a readership in 1982 and a

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ship in 1986, which he held until being appointed to the Davidson chair in 1997."Knibb, Prof. Michael Anthony"
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, December 2018). Retrieved 15 September 2019."Professor Michael Knibb FBA"
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''. Retrieved 15 September 2019. In 1989, he was elected a

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, the United Kingdom's

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, and served on its council from 1992 to 1995. He was also elected a

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in 1991. Knibb died on 6 December 2023, at the age of 84.

Publications

* ''The Ethiopic Book of Enoch: A New Edition in the Light of the Aramaic Dead Sea Fragments'', 2 vols. (

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, 1978). * ''Translating the Bible: The Ethiopic Version of the Old Testament'' (

, 1999) – Knibb's

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for the

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given in 1995. * (Editor) ''The Septuagint and Messianism'' (

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, 2006). * ''Essays on the Book of Enoch and other early Jewish Texts and Traditions'' (

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, 2009). *
The Ethiopic Text of the Book of Ezekiel: A Critical Edition
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, 2015).

References

1938 births 2023 deaths English biblical scholars Alumni of King's College London Academics of King's College London Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of King's College London People educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys 20th-century biblical scholars {{UK-academic-bio-stub