Nicholas de Lange
Nicholas de Lange | |
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Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
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Institutions | University of Cambridge |
Website | https://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/directory/de-lange |
Nicholas Robert Michael de Lange (7 August 1944, Nottingham) is Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Academic and literary career[]
Nicholas de Lange is an emeritus fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge. He has written and edited several books about Judaism and translated numerous works of fiction by Amos Oz,[1] S. Yizhar and A. B. Yehoshua into English. In November 2007, he received the Risa Domb/Porjes Prize for Translation from the Hebrew for his translation of A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz.
He gives lectures on Modern Judaism and the Reading of Jewish texts at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
Rabbinic career[]
De Lange is a Reform rabbi who studied with Ignaz Maybaum, a disciple of Franz Rosenzweig. He is the main rabbi of Etz Hayyim Synagogue in Chania.
Published works[]
- Origen and the Jews: Studies in Jewish-Christian Relations in Third-Century Palestine (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, 25) (1976), Cambridge University Press
- Apocrypha: Jewish Literature of the Hellenistic Age (Jewish Heritage Classics) (1978), New York: Viking Press
- Atlas of the Jewish World (1984), Oxford: Phaidon Press
- Judaism (1986), Oxford University Press
- "Jesus Christ and Auschwitz" (1997), New Blackfriars Vol. 78, No. 917/918, pp. 308–316
- An Introduction to Judaism (2000), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0521460736, pp. 272
- The Penguin Dictionary of Judaism (Penguin Reference Library) (2008), ISBN 978-0141018478, pp. 400
References[]
- ^ De Lange, Nicholas (3 January 2019). "Amos Oz's reading voice was beautiful. Translating his books was a marvellously fulfilling experience". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- 1944 births
- Living people
- 20th-century rabbis
- 20th-century British translators
- 21st-century rabbis
- 21st-century British translators
- Academics of the University of Cambridge
- British historians
- British Jews
- British Reform rabbis
- Clergy from Nottingham
- English translators
- Fellows of Wolfson College, Cambridge
- Jewish historians
- Amos Oz
- People educated at Harrow High School
- People from Nottingham
- Scholars of Medieval Greek
- Translators from Hebrew