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

Journal Articles

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Digging into the Past in Search of Hope, International Educator (2007)
 

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Have We Found Herod’s Elusive Temple to Augustus in Northern Israel?, Biblical Archaeology Review (2003)
 

Books

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The Roman Temple Complex at Horvat Omrit: An Interim Report (with D. Schowalter) (2011)
 

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

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

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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)
 

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

Contributions to Books

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Matthew and the Fate of Humankind, Life Beyond Death in Matthew’s Gospel: Religious Metaphor or Bodily Reality? (2011)
 

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The Gospel of Matthew, Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (2010)
 

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Between Rome and Parthia: Galilee and the Implications of Empire, A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Sean Freyne (2009)
 

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Horvat, Omrit, The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, Supplementary Volume (2008)
 

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The Problem with Pluralism in Second Temple Judaism: Matthew, James and the Didache in their Jewish-Roman Milieu, Matthew, James, and the Didache (2008)
 

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