Erwin R. Goodenough (1893-1965), scholar
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Erwin R. Goodenough (1893-1965) was an American scholar.
Biography
Professor at Yale University from 1923. His work first challenged systematically the notion of the normativeness of Pharisaic Judaism in the Second Temple Period.
Works on Second Temple Judaism
Books
- By Light, Light: The Mystic Gospel of Hellenistic Judaism (New Haven 1935)
- Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period, 13 vols. (Princeton 1953-68)
- An Introduction to Philo Judaeus (Oxford 1962)