Matthew Goff, Religion, College of Arts and SciencesMatthew Goff is a prolific scholar of Early Judaism and Biblical studies. His research has involved close readings of ancient texts, including the Dead Sea Scrolls. He has training in multiple languages, including Biblical Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Middle Egyptian, Ge’ez (Classical Ethiopic), German, French and Latin. Goff joined the Department of Religion in 2005. He completed an M.T.S degree in 1997 at Harvard Divinity School and finished his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 2002. His most recent book is “The Apocrypha: A Guide” (Oxford, 2024). Goff’s current book project is on demons and monsters in ancient Judaism and early Christianity.
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