Matthew Goff
Professor of Religion
Contact Information
Religions of Western Antiquity
Faculty
Office Location
415/417 Diffenbaugh
Email
Resume / CV
Curriculum Vitae442.61 KB
Office Hours
By appointment only
I joined the faculty of the Religion Department in 2005.I completed an M.T.S degree in 1997 at Harvard Divinity School and I finished my Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 2002. I studied under John Collins and wrote a dissertation on a Qumran text entitled 4QInstruction. My publications focus on the Dead Sea Scrolls and ancient Judaism. My most recent book is The Apocrypha: A Guide (Oxford, 2024). My current book project is on demons and monsters in ancient Judaism and early Christianity.
Research Interests
Wisdom Literature
Apocalypticism
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Second Temple Judaism
- “Between Two Texts: The Aramaic Language, Jewish and Manichean Books about Giants, and Asian Scribal Networks in Antiquity,” in The Aramaic Books of Enoch and Related Literature from Qumran: Proceedings of the International Online Conference Organized by the Center for the Study of Second Temple Judaism of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, in Cooperation with Enoch Seminar, 20–22 October 2020 (ed. Henryk Drawnel; JSJSup 216; Leiden: Brill, 2024), 229-59.
- “Aramaic as a Language of Antediluvian Wisdom: The Early Enoch Apocalypses, Astronomy and the Deep Past in the Hellenistic Near East,” in Reimagining Apocalypticism: Apocalypses, Apocalyptic Literature, and the Dead Sea Scrolls (ed. M. Goff and L. DiTommaso; Atlanta: SBL, 2023), 199-231.
- “The Diabolical Wisdom of Solomon: Assessing the Jewishness of the Testament of Solomon,” in Editionen und Studien zum Testamentum Salomonis (Parabiblica 1; ed. F. Albrecht; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023), 239-63.
