Matthew Goff
Assistant
Professor of Religion
Director
of Undergraduate StudiesI
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M05
Dodd Hall
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
Office: M06
Dodd Hall
Phone: (850)
645-6695
Fax: (850) 644-7225
Email: mgoff@mailer.fsu.edu
Office Hours: W and F, 10:00-11:00 & By Appointment
Curriculum
Vitae
Background
I
offer courses in Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism. 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 4QInstruction, the longest
wisdom text of the Dead Sea Scrolls. This document is the best
example available of a sapiential text with an apocalyptic worldview.
Working on this composition developed my interest in the intersections
between the wisdom and apocalyptic traditions in early Judaism.
4QInstruction and other wisdom texts from Qumran open up new opportunities
for understanding the wisdom tradition during the late Second
Temple period. I joined the faculty of the Religion Department
in Fall 2005.
Selected
Publications
Books
- Discerning
Wisdom: The Sapiential Literature of the Dead Sea Scrolls
(VTSup 116; Leiden: Brill, 2007).
- The
Worldly and the Heavenly Wisdom of 4QInstruction (Studies
on the Texts of the Deserts of Judah 50; Leiden: Brill, 2003).
Articles
- “Hellish
Females: The Strange Woman of Septuagint Proverbs and 4QWiles
of the Wicked Woman (4Q184),” Journal for the Study
of Judaism (forthcoming).
- "Discerning
Trajectories: 4QInstruction and the Sapiential Background
of the Sayings of the Source ," Journal of Biblical
Literature 124/4 (2005) 657-673. [download
essay]
- "Wisdom,
Apocalypticism and the Pedagogical Ethos of 4QInstruction,"
in Wisdom and Apocalypticism in Early Judaism and Christianity
(ed. L. Wills and B.G. Wright; Atlanta: Society of Biblical
Literature, 2005) 57-67. [download
essay]
- "Hellenistic
Instruction in Palestine and Egypt: Ben Sira and Papyrus Insinger,"
Journal for the Study of Judaism 36/2 (2005) 147-72.
Research
and Teaching Specializations
- Wisdom
Literature
- Apocalypticism
- The Dead
Sea Scrolls
- Second
Temple Judaism
Recent
Courses
- Fall
2005
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- REL2210
Introduction to the Old Testament (Honors)
- REL4290
Biblical Studies Seminar: Apocalypticism
- Spring
2006
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- REL3293
The Tree of Life
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REL6298 The Dead Sea Scrolls
Fall
2006
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