Дэниел Р. Лэнгтон: еврей тарихының американдық зерттеушісі

American historian

Daniel R. Langton is professor of Jewish history in the department of religions and theology at the University of Manchester, England.

Langton was home schooled before studying history for his BA (hons) 1991 94 and PhD 1994 98 at the Parkes Centre for the Study of Jewish/Non Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton.

Langton has taught at the University of Manchester, in the department of religions and theology, since 2001. He is codirector of the Centre for Jewish Studies and coeditor of the journal Melilah. He was an AHRC leadership gellow for 2016 17 with a project entitled the Doubting Jew and Leverhulme Major Research Fellow 2013 15 with a project entitled Darwin's Jews. He was a recipient of the University of Manchester Teaching Excellence Prize in 2006. He was president 2014 15 and secretary 2002 10 of the British Association for Jewish Studies, and secretary 2010 14 of the European Association for Jewish Studies.

Langton has explored the history of Jewish Christian relations and modern Jewish thought and identity in a variety of contexts, including Jewish New Testament studies, the origins of Anglo Reform and Anglo Liberal Judaism, Israel and Zionism, Holocaust Theology, and Jewish religious engagement with Jewish views on evolution and with Atheism.

Atheism, Scepticism and Challenges to Monotheism (2015), which presents a variety of scholarship on atheism and scepticism in Jewish contexts. Normative Judaism? Jews, Judaism and Jewish Identity (2012), co edited with Philip Alexander, which reflects modern scholarly debate about the nature of Judaism. Writing the Holocaust (2011), co edited with Jean Marc Dreyfus, which treats a range of topics including Holocaust Theology.

Jews and Christians Perspectives on Mission (2011), with Reuven Silverman and Patrick Morrow, which is a contribution to Interfaith dialogue. Children of Zion: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on the Holy Land (2008), which is a contribution to Interfaith dialogue.