Ruth Langer

Ruth Langer is a Professor of Theology at Boston College, and a noted expert on Jewish Liturgy and on Christian Jewish Relations.[1] She is married to Jonathan Sarna.[2]

Education

Langer was educated at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, where she received her Ph.D. (1994), MAHL (1985), and Rabbinic Ordination (1986), as well as at Bryn Mawr College (AB 1981).

Positions

History of Liturgy

Langer takes the position that the liturgy developed gradually and over many centuries [3] and that during that period of development, when rabbinic authority differed from popular custom on questions of liturgy, the liturgy always followed popular custom.[4] Langer’s analysis of the development of the Torah service [5] is particularly widely noted.[6]

Jewish-Christian Relations

In criticizing some parts of the Christian liturgy seen as anti-Jewish, Langer has explained that the Jewish liturgy does not include anti-Christian prayers.[7]

Writings

Books

Publications

References

  1. Ruth Langer - Theology Department - Boston College
  2. http://www.ajsnet.org/plenary2014.htm
  3. The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship: Sources and Methods for the Study of Early Liturgy, by Paul F. Bradshaw, 2002 , p. 42
  4. Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands, by Nancy Sinkoff, p. 241
  5. “From Study of Scripture to a Reenactment of Sinai: The Emergence of the Synagogue Torah Service,” reprinted in the Journal of Synagogue Music 31:1 (Fall 2006): 104-125
  6. Resplendent Synagogue: Architecture and Worship in an Eighteenth-Century Polish Community, by Thomas C. Hubka , 2003, University Press of New England, p. 193
  7. “Jews debate anti-gentile prayers with Respect to Good Friday Prayer,” By MENACHEM WECKER, March 21, 2008, National Catholic Reporter, http://uvcarmel.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/jews-debate-anti-gentile-prayers/
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