Theology Department Faculty

Ruth Langer

Professor; Director of Graduate Studies

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Ruth Langer

Ph.D.

Contact

Stokes Hall 411N

Telephone: 617-552-8492

Email: ruth.langer@bc.edu

ORCID 0000-0001-6862-3966

Education

  • A.B., Bryn Mawr College
  • MAHL, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
  • Rabbinic Ordination, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
  • Ph.D., Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion

Courses

Religious Quest I
Religious Quest II
Turning Points in Jewish History
Four Biblical Books in Comparative Perspective
Jewish Liturgy: Its History and Theology
Jews and Christians: Understanding the Other
From Diatribe to Dialogue: Studies in the Jewish-Christian Encounter
Passover in Midrash and Talmud
Israel in Jewish Theologies

Research Interests

Jewish liturgy, Christian-Jewish relations

 

Personal Website Curriculum Vitae
GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT
  • “New Perspectives on the Antiquity of Obligatory Prayer in Israel” (in Hebrew), 2017
  • “The Early Medieval Emergence of Jewish Daily Morning Psalms Recitation, Pesuqei D’zimra,” 2018
  • "The Self through the Other in Byzantine and Jewish Liturgies: A Comparative Exercise," 2019

Selected Publications

Jewish Liturgy: A Guide to Research (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

Cursing the Christians?: A History of the Birkat HaMinim (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Liturgy in the Life of the Synagogue: Studies in the History of Jewish Prayer, ed. Ruth Langer and Steven Fine (Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2005).

To Worship God Properly: Tensions between Liturgical Custom and Halakhah in Judaism (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2005).

"From Study of Scripture to a Reenactment of Sinai," Worship 72:1 (January 1998): 43-67.

"Birkat Betulim: A Study of the Jewish Celebration of Bridal Virginity," Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish ResearchLXI (1995): 53-94.

 

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