Thomas E. Goud

Thomas Goud has been the lone Classicist at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John since 1994. Born in Estevan, Saskatchewan, he completed his BA (Greek and Latin Honours) at the University of Calgary and his MA and PhD (Classics) at the University of Toronto.

Dr Goud has taught a wide range of courses including Greek and Roman history, literature, and myth; Ancient Greek and Latin language; and the rise of early Christianity.

Dr Goud’s research interests lie in early Christian texts and history, in Roman history and historiography, and in Latin language and literature. His research has taken him full circle from an early interest in Biblical and early Christian studies to doctoral work on Latin historiography in the 1st century CE and now back to a primary focus on early Christian texts and history. He is co-chair for the Synoptic Gospels sessions at the international meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature.

Dr Goud is the co-editor, with J.R.C. Cousland and John Harrison of Encountering the Parables in Contexts Old and New (London: Bloomsbury, 2023). He is currently writing a book on violence in the king parables in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke (The Prince of Peace and His Violent Parables: “King Parables” in Matthew and Luke). In addition he has begun work on a co-authored book with Dr Jonathan Lo of Ambrose University on the Greek and Roman contexts of early Christianity.

He was the co-director of the UNB Travel Study Programme in Rome from 2003–2019 and taught on site in Rome for over 20 years.