Martin Goodman (1953-), scholar

Martin Goodman is a Jewish-British scholar, at the University of Oxford, England.

Biography

Born in 1953. Professor of Jewish Studies at the Oriental Institute, Wolfson College.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Books

• State and Society in Roman Galilee, AD 132-212 (Totowa 1983)
• The Ruling Class of Judea: The Origins of the Jewish Revolt against Rome AD 66-70 (Cambridge 1987)
• Mission and Conversion: Proselytizing in the Religious History of the Roman Empire (Oxford 1994).
• Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilization (New York 2007)

Edited volumes

• Jews in a Graeco-Roman World (Oxford 1998)