CONTRIBUTOR:

Adam Kolman Marshak

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Instructor

DEPARTMENT:

History

INSTITUTION:

Gann Academy

BIOGRAPHY:

Adam Kolman Marshak teaches history and serves as the dean for the Class of 2020 at Gann Academy, a non-denominational Jewish high school in Waltham, Massachusetts. He received his BA in History and Classics with honors and distinction from Stanford University (2001), and his PhD in History from Yale University (2007), where he was a Mellon Fellow in Humanistic Studies and Distinguished Teaching award winner. While at Yale, he also won the Robert F. Goheen Prize in Classical Studies (2004) and the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research’s Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize (2006). In addition to his teaching, he has published extensively on the history of Roman Judaea and the political world of Herod the Great. His book, The Many Faces of Herod the Great, was published in 2015 by Wm. B. Eerdmans. He also has written several articles for academic journals and edited manuscripts, as well as entries in the Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, and the Bloomsbury T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism.