Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough (24 October 1893[1] – 20 March 1965)[2] was an American scholar in the history of religion.
He then began teaching at Yale University in 1923, where he taught until he retired in 1962.
He went on to Brandeis University, then was given an office in the Widener Library at Harvard.
He received honorary degrees from Yale, Hebrew Union College, and the University of Uppsala.
After his death, he was honored by a volume of studies in his honor, Religions in Antiquity: Essays in Memory of Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough, edited by Jacob Neusner, published by E.J.