Robert Doran (born 1940) is a scholar of religion, particularly early Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism.
He held a position of professor of Religion and European Studies at Amherst College in Massachusetts and took emeritus status in 2020.
At Amherst, he had the named chair of Samuel Williston Professor of Greek and Hebrew.
He has also published on the lost works of Hellenistic era Jewish writers and historians such as Aristeas the Exegete, Pseudo-Eupolemus, Cleodemus Malchus, and Pseudo-Hecataeus.
Doran earned his Doctorate of Theology from Harvard Divinity School where he studied under John Strugnell among others.