Prof Martin Goodman, FBA

Career: Kaye jr research fell Oxford Centre for Postgrad Hebrew Studies 1976-77, lectr in ancient history Univ of Birmingham 1977-86; Univ of Oxford: fell Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies 1986-, sr research fell St Cross Coll 1986-91, lectr in Roman history Christ Church 1988-, Hebrew Centre lectr in ancient history 1990-91, univ reader in Jewish studies and professorial fell Wolfson Coll 1991-96, prof of Jewish studies 1996-, hon fell Trinity Coll 2010-; fell Inst for Advanced Studies Hebrew Univ of Jerusalem 1993; pres Br Assoc for Jewish Studies 1995, acting pres Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies 1995-96 and 1999-2000; sec Euro Assoc for Jewish Studies 1994-98; review ed Jl of Roman Studies 1993-98 (ed 1999-2003), jt ed Jl of Jewish Studies 1995-99; FBA 1996

Books and Publications: State and Society in Roman Galilee, AD 132-212 (1983, 2 edn 2000), On the Art of the Kabbalah (jt trans, 1983, 2 edn 1993), The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (jt ed, 1986-87), The Ruling Class of Judaea: the origins of the Jewish revolt against Rome, AD 66-70 (1987, reprinted 1988, 1989, 1991, paperback 1993), The Essenes according to the Classical Sources (with Geza Vermes, 1989), Mission and Conversion: proselytizing in the religious history of the Roman Empire (1994), The Roman World 44 BC- AD 180 (1997), Jews in a Graeco-Roman World (ed, 1998, paperback 2004), Apologetic in the Roman World: Pagans, Jews and Christians (jt ed, 1999), Representations of Empire: Rome and the Mediterranean World (jt ed, 2002), The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies (ed, 2002), Judaism in the Roman World: Collected Essays (2007), Rome and Jerusalem (2007), Abraham, the Nations and the Hagarites (jt ed, 2010), Rabbinic Texts and the History of Late-Roman Palestine (jt ed, 2010); also author of over 35 articles and 100 reviews