Hebrew & Semitic Studies Teaching Staff
Prof Nicholas de Lange
Contact Information
Email: nrml1@cam.ac.uk
Current Position
Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Biographical Details
Nicholas de Lange teaches rabbinic and medieval Hebrew in the Faculty; he also teaches Jewish studies in the Faculty of Divinity. He has been closely involved in Christian–Jewish dialogue; has translated many novels from modern Hebrew; has travelled extensively in the Mediterranean region; he has lived in France, and is associated with various research institutes and projects in Paris.
Education
Nicholas de Lange studied Classical Mods and Greats at Christ Church, Oxford, and simultaneously studied Rabbinics at Leo Baeck College, London. He was awarded Oxford University’s James Mew Rabbinic Hebrew Prize. He remained at Oxford to write a DPhil dissertation on ‘Origen and the Jews’ under the supervision of Henry Chadwick. Other degrees: Ph.D. (Cambridge), D.D. (Cambridge).
Research Interests
History of Judaism; Hellenistic Judaism; Byzantine Judaism; Reception and Transmission of Greek Bible Translations; Hebrew literature; Jewish theology
Current Projects
Currently directing a research project funded by the AHRC on ‘The Greek Bible in Byzantine Judaism’. The aim of the project is to show how Greek-speaking Jews in the Middle Ages used Bible translations, and how these translations relate to other Greek Bible translations, such as those used at this time by Christians, and those used by Jews in Late Antiquity and in the early modern period. The manuscript evidence for these translations will be published in its entirety, on line and in print, and various associated books will be published.
Also directing a project on ‘Medieval Hebrew inscriptions from the Byzantine empire’, under the auspices of the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes in Paris. The object is to produce a corpus with full descriptions and photographs.
Publications
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| 2008 | The Penguin Dictionary of Judaism (London: Penguin) |
| 2005 | ed. (with Miri Freud-Kandel) Modern Judaism: an Oxford Guide (OUP) |
| 2002 | (ed. and tr.) Colette Sirat, Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press) |
| 2001 | (ed.) Ignaz Maybaum: A Reader (New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books) |
| 2001 | (ed.) Hebrew Scholarship and the Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press) |
| 2000 | An Introduction to Judaism (Cambridge University Press) |
| 1997 | (ed.) An Illustrated History of the Jewish People (London: Aurum Books, New York: Harcourt Brace, Toronto: Key Porter Books) |
| 1996 | Greek Jewish Texts from the Cairo Genizah. (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr) (Paul Siebeck) |
| 1995 | (ed. and tr.) Amos Oz, Under This Blazing Light (Cambridge University Press) |
| 1986 | Judaism (Oxford: Oxford University Press) (2nd edition, OUP 2003) |
| 1984 | Atlas of the Jewish World (Oxford: Phaidon Press and New York: Facts on File) |
| 1983 | (With Marguerite Harl) ORIGENE: Philocalie, 1-20, sur les écritures et la Lettre à Africanus sur l’Histoire de Suzanne. Introduction, texte, traduction et notes. (Sources Chrétiennes, 302) (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf) |
| 1978 | Apocrypha: Jewish Literature of the Hellenistic Age (Jewish Heritage Classics) (New York: Viking Press) |
| 1976 | Origen and the Jews (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, 25) (Cambridge University Press) |
| Recent Articles in Journals and Books |
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| 2007 | (with Joshua Holo) ‘Jewish Sources’, in Mary Whitby, ed., Byzantines and Crusaders in non-Greek sources, 1025-1204 (Proceedings of the British Academy, 132) (Oxford, 2007), 361–9. |
| 2007 | ‘An early Hebrew–Greek Bible glossary from the Cairo Genizah and its significance for the study of Jewish Bible translations into Greek’, in M.F.J. Baasten & R. Munk, eds, Studies in Hebrew literature and culture presented to Albert van der Heide on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday (Dordrecht: Springer, 2007), 31–9. |
| 2007 | (with Natalie Tchernetska and Judith Olszowy-Schlanger), ‘An early Hebrew–Greek biblical glossary from the Cairo Genizah’, Revue des études juives 166 (2007), 91–128. |
| 2007 | ‘Jewish and Christian messianic hopes in pre-Islamic Byzantium’, in M. Bockmuehl & J. Carleton Paget, eds, Redemption and Resistance. The messianic hopes of Jews and Christians in antiquity (London: T&T Clark), pp. 274–84 |
| 2006 | ‘Les études judéo-grecques et la Revue des Études Juives’, in S.C. Mimouni.and J. Olszowy-Schlanger, eds, Les revues scientifiques d’études juives : passé et avenir. À l’occasion du 120e anniversaire de la Revue des études juives (Paris–Louvain: Peeters), 93–102 |
| 2006 | ‘Jewish use of Greek in the Middle Ages: evidence from Passover Haggadoth from the Cairo Genizah’, Jewish Quarterly Review 96, 490–497 |
| 2006 | ‘Research on Byzantine Jewry: the state of the question’, in András Kovács & Michael L. Miller, eds, Jewish Studies at the Central European University IV, 2003–2005 (Budapest: CEU), 41–51 |
| 2006 | ‘Can we speak of Jewish Orthodoxy in Byzantium?’, in Andrew Louth & Augustine Casiday, eds, Byzantine Orthodoxies. Papers from the Thirty-sixth Spring symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Durham, 23–25 March 2002 (Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, 12) (Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum), 167–78 |
| 2006 | ‘The Orthodox Churches in dialogue with Judaism’, in James K. Aitken & Edward Kessler, eds, Challenges in Jewish–Christian relations (New York/Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press), 51–62 |
| 2005 | ‘Hebrew and Jewish Studies in Great Britain’, in Jewish Studies and the European Academic World. Plenary lectures read at the VIIth Congress of the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS), Amsterdam, July 2002, ed. Albert van der Heide and Irene E. Zwiep (Paris–Louvain–Dudley, MA: Peeters), 127–51 |
| 2005 | ‘Jews in the age of Justinian’, in M. Maas , ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian (CUP), 401–26 |
Links
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