Dr. Erwin R. Goodenough, a world renowned non-Jewish Biblical scholar who has written extensively on Judaic themes, died here yesterday at the age of 71 A professor emeritus in religion at Yale University, Dr. Goodenough was also a visiting lecturer at Brandeis University.
His major work was “Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period,” a 10-volume discussion of the influence he said pagan culture had exercised on Palestinian Judaism. The work based its main conclusions on what it claimed was the presence of pagan symbols and designs in early Jewish art and expressions of religion.
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