A. Thomas Kraabel
| A. Thomas Kraabel | |
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A Thomas Kraabel Decorah Iowa 2008
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| Born |
Alf Thomas Kraabel November 4, 1934 Portland, Oregon, U.S. |
| Died | November 2, 2016 (aged 81) Decorah, Iowa, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Parkinson's disease |
| Occupation | Scholar, professor, pastor |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater |
University of Iowa Luther College Harvard University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classical, medieval |
| Institutions |
Duke University University of Minnesota University of Oxford Luther College |
| Main interests | Hellenistic period, Judaism |
Alf Thomas Kraabel (November 4, 1934 – November 2, 2016) was an American classics scholar and educator who worked extensively in Greek and Hellenistic Judaic studies. He served as a faculty member in the classics department at the University of Minnesota from 1963 to 1983, and served as the Dean of Luther College in Iowa before retiring in 2000.
A. Thomas Kraabel was born Alf Thomas Kraabel in Portland, Oregon on November 4, 1934, the first child of Alf M. and Marie (née Swensen) Kraabel, both natives of North Dakota. His paternal grandfather was Anton Kraabel, a Norwegian immigrant and politician who served as the Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota from 1912 to 1914.
He attended schools in Oregon, Minnesota, and California, graduating from Oakland Technical High School in Oakland, California.
Kraabel excelled in the study of Latin in high school and majored in classical languages and literature during his four years of study at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Following completion of the B.A. degree in 1956, he continued the study of classics at the University of Iowa for two years with the support of a Danforth Graduate Fellowship, earning the master of arts degree in 1958.
In the three years from 1958-61 Kraabel studied theology at Luther Theological Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. During that time, he offered instruction in New Testament Greek for seminary students. On completion of the B.Th. degree in 1961, he was ordained as a Lutheran pastor and served as assistant pastor of Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Minneapolis for two years.
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