Name Martin Goodman | Role Historian | |
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Awards National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship Books Rome and Jerusalem: The Clas, The Roman world - 44, The ruling class of Judaea, Mission and conversion, Toleration Within Judaism Similar People Geza Vermes, Fergus Millar, Emil Schurer |
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Martin David Goodman, FBA (born 1 August 1953) is a British historian and academic, specialising in Roman history and the history and literature of the Jews in the Roman period.
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- Early life and education
- Academic career
- Research and teaching
- Honours
- Selected works
- References
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Early life and education
Goodman was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, (B.A.) where he studied classical language and literature, ancient history and philosophy (Literae Humaniores). He completed his Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1980: his doctoral thesis was titled State and society in Roman Galilee, AD 132-212. In 2010 he was awarded the degree of DLitt.
Academic career
Goodman began his academic career as a research fellow, holding the Kaye Junior Research Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies from 1976 to 1977. He was then a lecturer in ancient history at the University of Birmingham from 1977 to 1986.
In 1986, Goodman was elected a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He was made Professor of Jewish Studies by the University of Oxford in 1996. Since 2014, he has been the President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
He has edited the Journal of Roman Studies, and the Journal of Jewish Studies. He is past President of the British Association for Jewish Studies, past secretary of the European Association of Jewish Studies, and he is a fellow, governor and President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
Research and teaching
Goodman teaches Roman history and Jewish history, and has written extensively on Jewish history in the Graeco-Roman period.
Goodman specialises in Jewish history during the Roman period, including the religious and political conditions of the Jews, and their interactions with other peoples of the Roman Empire.
Honours
In 1996, Goodman was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). In 2010, he was made an honorary fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.