J. Andrew Overman specializes in religion, culture, and ethnicity in the Greco-Roman
world. He has written widely on the development of Christianity and Judaism in the Roman
world, the interaction between cultures and races in the Roman Empire, diaspora Judaism,
and archaeology of the Roman world. Overman is an archaeologist who is currently the
director of the Omrit dig in Israel. Each summer students accompany him to this site in
the Middle East to conduct excavations of a Roman temple. 

Overman has been teaching at Macalester since 1993. 

EDUCATION: B.A., St. John’'s University B.D., University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Ph.D., Boston University

Books

The First Jewish Revolt: Archaology, History, and Ideology (co-editor) (with Andrea Berlin) (2002)
 

Church and Community in Crisis: The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1996)
 

Diaspora Jews and Judaism: Essays in Honor of, and in Dialogue with, A. Thomas Kraabel (co-editor) (with A. Thomas Kraabel and Robert S. MacLennan) (1992)
 

Matthew's Gospel and Formative Judaism : The Social World of the Matthean Community (1990)
 

Contributions to Books

Kata Nomon Pharisaios : a Short History of Paul's Pharisaism, Pauline Conversations in Context: Essays in Honor of Calvin J. Roetzel (2002)
 

The First Jewish Revolt and Flavian Policy, The First Jewish Revolt Against Rome: Archaeology, History, and Ideology (2002)
 

Jesus of Galilee and the Historical Peasant, Archaeology and the Galilee: Texts and Contexts in the Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Periods (1997)
 

Matthew's Parables and Roman Politics: The Imperial Setting of Matthew's Narrative with Special Reference to His Parables, Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers 1995 (1995)
 

The Diaspora in the Modern Study of Ancient Judaism, Diaspora Jews and Judaism: Essays in Honor of, and in Dialogue with, A. Thomas Kraabel (1992)
 

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