Douglas E. Oakman

Douglas E. Oakman has been with the faculty of Pacific Lutheran University since 1988. Prior to that he taught at Santa Clara University, the University of San Francisco, and San Francisco Theological Seminary. Oakman has published numerous articles applying the social sciences to biblical studies. He is the author of the award-winning Palestine in the Time of Jesus (2nd edition, 2008), Jesus and the Peasants (2008), and The Political Aims of Jesus (2012), among other titles. Oakman is an ordained minister on the roster of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.