Research
Professor Goldhill is the author of The Temple of Jerusalem (2004, 2011) which has been translated into Hungarian, Russian, Italian, Bulgarian, Greek, Portuguese, and Italian, and was runner up for the Wingate Prize. In 2009, he was awarded the Gold Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Awards for history for Jerusalem, City of Longing (2008). His primary Jewish Studies research interests are in Judaism in the classical world and in Victorian Jerusalem and he has published chapters on Wagner's relation to Judaism and on Jews in Victorian fiction in Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction and the Proclamation of Modernity (Princeton 2011). Professor Goldhill has also published on Victorian Jerusalem and has essays forthcoming entitled "Why Jews Don't Write Biography", and "The History of the Defeated" -- on Talmudic representations of the fall of Jerusalem. He has been actively involved as a peer reviewer in the UNESCO project PUSH, the Programme for Understanding Shared Heritage, which brings together Palestinians, Israelis and Jordanians to explore heritage management. Professor Goldhill is Director of CRASSH, the Cambridge Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities and chairman of CUPRIH, the Cambridge University Programme for Religion in the Humanities.
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Publications
- The Temple of Jerusalem
- Jerusalem: City of Longing