Theology Department Faculty

Ruth Langer

Professor; Director of Graduate Studies

Selected Publications

Books

, ed. Philip Cunningham, Ruth Langer, Jesper Svartvik (New York/Mahwah, NJ: Stimulus/Paulist Press, 2020).

(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

Ìý(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

Articles

“The Early Medieval Emergence of Jewish Daily Morning Psalms Recitation, Pesuqe de-Zimra,” in The Power of Psalms in Post-Biblical Judaism: Liturgy, Ritual and Community, ed. Claudia Bergmann, Tessa Rajak, Benedikt Kranemann, and Rebecca Ulrich (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2023), 222-240.

“Turning to Jerusalem from the Exile: Jewish Liturgy’s Engagement with the Diaspora,” in Oxford Handbook of the Jewish Diaspora, ed. Hasia Diner (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021), 55-72,

“Jewish Liturgy During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Vignettes from Boston Suburbs,” Contemporary Jewry 41, no. 1 (2021): 23-37; June 15, 2021, on line,

“Rabbis, Nonrabbis and Synagogues in Roman Palestine: Theory and Reality,” in Synagogues in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods: Archaeological Finds, New Methods, New Theories, ed. Lutz Doering and Andrew R. Krause, in co-operation with Hermut Löhr; Ioudaioi 11 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020), 253-276.

“Israel in Jewish Theologies: A Schematic Overview,” in Enabling Dialogue about the Land: A Resource Book for Jews and Christians, ed. Philip Cunningham, Ruth Langer, and Jesper Svartvik (New York/Mahwah, NJ: Stimulus/Paulist Press, 2020), 43-62.

“Re-Examining the Early Evidence for Rabbinic Liturgy: How Fixed Were Its Prayer Texts?” with Richard S. Sarason, in On Wings of Prayer: Sources of Jewish Worship; Essays in Honor of Professor Stefan C. Reif on the Occasion of his Seventy-fifth Birthday, Nuria Calduch-Benages, Michael W. Duggan, and Dalia Marx, eds., Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 44 (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2019), 203-231,.

“Prophetic Universalism and Particularism in Jewish Liturgy,” in Righting Relations after the Holocaust and Vatican II: Essays in Honor of John T. Pawlikowski, OSM, ed. Elena G. Procario-Foley and Robert A. Cathey (New York, Mahwah NJ: A Stimulus Book, Paulist Press, 2018), 253-269.