Martin Goodman (historian)

Martin Goodman (born August 1, 1953 ) is a British historian and Judaist.

Life

Martin Goodman studied Classical Languages ​​and History at Trinity College , Oxford . He received his doctorate in 1980 with the dissertation State and Society in Roman Galilee, AD 132-212 . Goodman specialized in the history of the Jews in the Roman Empire. He also received his Doctor of Letters (DLitt) doctorate in 2010.

From 1976 he was a lecturer in ancient history at the University of Birmingham and in 1986 he was a fellow at Wolfson College , Oxford. In 1996 he was appointed Professor of Jewish Studies at Oxford University. From 2014 to 2018, Goodman was Chairman of the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

Goodman was editor of the Journal of Roman Studies and the Journal of Jewish Studies . He is a member of the British Association for Jewish Studies and its chairman for a period.

Goodman was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 1996 . Since 2010 he has been an honorary fellow at Trinity College, Oxford.

Fonts (selection)

• The Ruling Class of Judaea: The Origins of the Jewish Revolt Against Rome, AD 66-70 , Cambridge, 1987 ISBN 0-521-44782-8
• with Geza Vermes (Ed.): The Essenes According to the Classical Sources . Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1990, ISBN 1-85075-139-0
• Mission and Conversion: Proselytizing in the Religious History of the Roman Empire . Oxford, 1994 ISBN 0-19-814941-7
• The Roman world 44 BC – AD 180 . Routledge History of the Ancient World. London: Routledge, 1997 ISBN 0-415-04970-9
• (Ed.): Jews in a Graeco-Roman World . Oxford, 1998 ISBN 0-19-815078-4
• (Mhrsg.): Apologetics in the Roman Empire: Pagans, Jews and Christians . Oxford, 1999 ISBN 0-19-826986-2
• State and Society in Roman Galilee AD 132-212 . 2nd edition, London 2000 ISBN 0-85303-380-3
• (Ed.): Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies , Oxford, 2002 ISBN 0-19-829996-6
• Judaism in the Roman World, collected essays . Leiden, 2007 ISBN 978-90-04-15309-7
• Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations . New York, 2007 ISBN 0-375-41185-2
• (Mhrsg.): Rabbinic Texts and the History of Late Roman Palestine . Oxford, 2010 ISBN 978-0-19-726474-4
• A History of Judaism . Princeton University Press, 2018 ISBN 9780691181271

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Goodman (historian) in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Martin Goodman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Martin D. Goodman , at: Oriental Institute, Oxford