Michael Anthony Knibb (born 1938) is a biblical scholar and retired academic. He was

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at King's College London from 1997 to 2001. Born 14 December 1938, he completed BD and PhD degrees at King's College. He was appointed lecturer in

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there in 1964 and was promoted to a

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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"
'' Who's Who'' (online ed.,

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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 Fellow of the British Academy, 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.

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 Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology 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

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