Bowman is an American scholar and academic particularly known for his research of Greek and Jewish relations throughout the past three millennia, with emphasis on Byzantine and Holocaust periods.
Fleming as one which "produced a careful and multilayered examination of Greek Jewry’s most devastating five years",[1] was characterized by Nikos Tzafleris as "the most complete chronicle to date of the Holocaust of Greek Jewry"[2] and by Aristotle Kallis as a "fascinating book" including a "complex set of stories relating to individuals, families, and entire communities".
[3] In 2011 Bowman finished his Annotated Translation of Sepher Yosippon, published in 2012 as the first book of the Hackmey Jewish Classics series at Harvard University.
Holocaust Memorial Museum[4]), England (Center for Advanced Jewish Studies at Oxford) and Israel (Postdoctoral) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and research and travel grants to Yad Vashem) and was a Gennadeion Fellow in Athens.
In 2010, Bowman was appointed a visiting professor at Wolfson College (Cambridge University) to work on Genizah fragments of Sefer Yosippon.