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Nicholas de Lange read Classical Mods and Greats at Christ Church, Oxford, followed by a DPhil in Patristics. After a brief spell as a Research Fellow of the University of Southampton he came to Cambridge as Lecturer in Rabbinics, becoming Reader in Hebrew and Jewish Studies in 1995 and Professor in 2001. His research interests include Hellenistic and Byzantine Judaism. He has held visiting positions at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, the Jewish Theological Seminary of Hungary in Budapest, the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, the Freie Universität Berlin, the University of Toronto and Princeton University. He is also a prolific translator, specialising mainly in contemporary Hebrew fiction, and has served as Chairman of the Translators Association. He is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Member of the Academia Europaea.
Festschrift by Nicholas de Lange
Scholarly Articles by Nicholas de Lange
En tant que peuple, les Juifs sont condamnés; c'est leur fonction. 1
Gethin Rees, Nicholas de Lange, and Alexander Panayotov, “Mapping the Jewish communities of the Byzantine Empire using GIS,” in Justin Yoo, et al., eds., Migration and Migrant Identities in the Near East from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (London: Routledge, 2018), 104-121
The Septuagint-the Greek translation of the Jewish Bible-was in antiquity a Jewish 'classic', in ... more The Septuagint-the Greek translation of the Jewish Bible-was in antiquity a Jewish 'classic', in the sense of a store of deeply internalized language and stories. It then more or less disappeared from view in western Europe until rediscovered by modern historicism, first as a source of information about the matrix from which Christianity emerged and then, more recently, as a key product of Hellenistic and Roman Jewish culture.
En tant que peuple, les Juifs sont condamnés; c'est leur fonction. 1
Gethin Rees, Nicholas de Lange, and Alexander Panayotov, “Mapping the Jewish communities of the Byzantine Empire using GIS,” in Justin Yoo, et al., eds., Migration and Migrant Identities in the Near East from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (London: Routledge, 2018), 104-121
The Septuagint-the Greek translation of the Jewish Bible-was in antiquity a Jewish 'classic', in ... more The Septuagint-the Greek translation of the Jewish Bible-was in antiquity a Jewish 'classic', in the sense of a store of deeply internalized language and stories. It then more or less disappeared from view in western Europe until rediscovered by modern historicism, first as a source of information about the matrix from which Christianity emerged and then, more recently, as a key product of Hellenistic and Roman Jewish culture.
Nicholas de Lange, “Judaism,” in Francis Robinson, ed., The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 360–361
This volume honours Philip Alexander, a towering figure on the stage of Jewish Studies in Britain... more This volume honours Philip Alexander, a towering figure on the stage of Jewish Studies in Britain. His own research and publications (listed in a 20-page appendix) cover a vast range, and the editors took the sensible decision to limit the scope of the book, to make for what they call 'a strongly themed volume'; they chose the subject of education, which is appropriate given Philip Alexander's massive contribution not only to the historical and textual study of education but to its practical aspects as researcher, teacher, administrator and academic entrepreneur over the course of nearly half a century. Most of his career has been spent in the University of Manchester, but he spent an important period of three years as the second president of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, in succession to the founding president, David Patterson. (It is perhaps not irrelevant to mention that the Festschrift for David Patterson was on a similar subject: Jewish Education and Learning, ed.