Paul R. Raabe

Paul Richard Raabe attended Lutheran elementary school and high school in Milwaukee. His degrees are B.S. from (then) Concordia Teachers College in Seward, Nebraska; M.Div. from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis; M.A. in Classical Greek and Latin from Washington University in St. Louis; and Ph.D. in ancient Near Eastern studies and Northwest Semitic from the University of Michigan. He was ordained in 1979. He taught Classical Greek at (then) Concordia College, Ann Arbor, for four years and exegesis at Concordia Seminary for thirty-five years and is a Doctor of Philosophy at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix since 2018. Dr. Raabe has served as a guest instructor in the Philippines, Brazil, and Sweden. He has participated in two archaeological excavations, one in southern Israel and one in northern Syria. He wrote the notes on Obadiah for the ESV Study Bible and the new edition of The Harper Collins Study Bible. He has served on The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod’s Commission on Theology and Church Relations, has presented at many pastoral conferences, and has taught numerous lay groups. His publications include Psalm Structures (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament: Supplement Series), Obadiah (Anchor Bible), and over sixty articles in books, journals, and dictionaries such as Journal of Biblical Literature, Concordia Journal, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Concordia Theological Quarterly, Hebrew Annual Review, Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies