Johannes of Oppido = Obadiah the Proselyte

The leading scholars of Johannes / Obadiah studies, from left to right: Norman Golb (University of Chicago), S. D. Goitein (University of Pennsylvania), and Alexander Scheiber (Jewish Theological Seminary of Budapest), taken in Cambridge in 1970.

The photo was published by Norman Golb, “Dove avvenne la conversione al Giudaismo del proselito Obadiah di Oppido,” in Pietro Borraro, ed., Antiche Civiltà Lucane: Atti del convegno di studi di archaeologia, storia dell’arte e del folklore, Oppido Lucano, 5-8 Aprile 1970 (Galatina: Congedo, 1975), pp. 217-225, as Tav. XXXVII.

Used with kind permission of Professor Norman Golb.