Professor Michael Knibb FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1989
- Year of birth
- 1938
- Year of death
- 2023
- Honours
- FBA, FKC
- Subjects
- Religion
- Sections
- Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Summary
Michael Knibb is Samuel Davidson Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Studies at King’s College London. He studied at Union Theological Seminary in New York and at Oxford and was awarded a PhD degree of the University of London in the field of Semitic Studies in 1974. He was appointed Lecturer in Old Testament Studies at King’s in 1964 and remained at King’s until his retirement in 2001. He held a British Academy Research Readership from 1986 to 1988, and in 1995 he gave the Schweich lectures of the British Academy. He has been concerned in his research with two main fields of study, the literature of the late Second Temple period and the translation of the Bible into Classical Ethiopic. His interest in the former led him to publish a number of studies on Enoch and on related writings in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha and the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as an edition of the Ethiopic text of Enoch. Preparation of this edition led to a more general concern with the translation of the Bible into Ethiopic, the subject of his Schweich Lectures, and to the very recent publication of an edition of the Ethiopic text of Ezekiel.
Last post
Samuel Davidson Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Studies, King's College London
Past appointments
King's College London University of London Samuel Davidson Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Studies
2001 -
King's College London University of London Samuel Davidson Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Studies
2001 -
King's College London University of London Samuel Davidson Professor of Old Testament Studies
1997 - 2001
King's College London University of London Samuel Davidson Professor of Old Testament Studies
1997 - 2001
King's College London University of London Professor of Old Testament Studies
1986 - 1997
King's College London University of London Professor of Old Testament Studies
1986 - 1997
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Graham Furniss FBA
Oral and written literatures of Africa; orality, performance and genre in the popular cultures of West Africa with particular reference to Hausa-speaking regions of Nigeria and Niger
Professor Elizabeth Anne Lambourn FBA
Material culture and history of the Indian Ocean world before 1500
Professor Daniel Potts FBA
The archaeology and history of the Near East, particularly the Iranian world, from antiquity to the pre-modern era
