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367:, named Kraabel vice-president and dean of the college, as well as professor of religion and classics. He continued in this position through the 1995-1996 academic year. Subsequently, he taught religion and classics at the college until his retirement at the end of the 1999-2000 academic year. In 1988, Luther College named him to an endowed professorial chair, Qualley Professor of Classics, a position he occupied until his retirement.
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awarded him the Th.D. degree in 1968. While working on that degree he received a
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for seminary students. On completion of the B.Th. degree in 1961, he was ordained as a
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Kraabel excelled in the study of Latin in high school and majored in classical languages and literature during his four years of study at
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583:"The Diaspora Synagogue: Archaeological and Epigraphic Evidence since Sukenik." Pages 477-510, one plan, one plate, in
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Paganisme, Judaisme, Christianisme: Influences et affrontements dans le mond antique. Melanges offerts a Marcel Simon
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studies. He served as a faculty member in the classics department at the
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scholar and educator who worked extensively in Greek and
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