Bernhard Lang (biblical scholar)

This article is about the German biblical scholar. For the Austrian composer, see Bernhard Lang.

Bernhard Lang is a German biblical scholar and cultural historian born in 1946. For many years he taught at the University of Paderborn, with which he has been associated since 1985[1] He is perhaps best known as the author of The Hebrew God: Portrait of an Ancient Deity (2002), Joseph in Egypt: A Cultural Icon from Grotius to Goethe (2009), and Sacred Games: A History of Christian Worship (2013), which were published by Yale University Press, as was Heaven: A History (2001), of which he was a co-author together with Colleen McDannell. Another work, Meeting in Heaven, was published by Peter Lang in 2011.[2] In conjunction with the Society for Old Testament Study (of which he is an Honorary Member)[3] a volume of his essays entitled Hebrew Life and Literature was published in 2008 by Ashgate Publishing and subsequently republished by Routledge.[4] He was formerly the editor of the International Review of Biblical Studies, and was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Theology by Aarhus University in 2008.

References

  1. ^ "Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Bernhard Lang".
  2. ^ Lang, Bernhard (27 July 2021). Meeting in Heaven. Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-631-62000-7.
  3. ^ "Professor Dr Bernhard Lang".
  4. ^ "Hebrew Life and Literature".


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