GOODMAN, MARTIN DAVID

GOODMAN, MARTIN DAVID (1953– ), British professor of Jewish Studies. Educated at Oxford, Goodman is a major, much-respected historian of ancient Jewry and the ancient world in the Roman era. He is the author of many works, including The Ruling Class of Judea (1987), Mission and Conversion: Prosteltyzing in the Religious History of the Roman World (1994), and the editor of Jews in a Graeco-Roman World (1998), which often aims to place the history of Roman-era Judea in a wider context. He is also the editor of the comprehensive Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies (2002). Goodman is professor of Jewish Studies at Oxford University, a fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He was president of the British Association for Jewish Studies. (William D. Rubinstein (2nd ed.)