Lecture Topics
Ruth Langer
Theology Department, Boston College
Jewish Liturgy:
- From Temple to Synagogue: Connecting to Jewish Sacred Space
- Words, Not Sacrifices?: The Evolution of the Prayer Book
- Celebrating Torah -- (on the meanings embedded in Torah rituals and what
this says about the ritual reading of Torah)
- Pray, for God’s Sake! -- (on the Jewish relationship to prayer as
mitzvah)
- Creating Sacred Time in Judaism: Havdalah
- Chutzpadik Prayer (issues of how we can have the temerity to petition God)
- Illuminating Jewish Women’s Spirituality: Yiddish Prayers for
Candlelighting
- Origins of the Liturgy
- Calling on the Merits of the Ancestors (Zekhut Avot)
- Languages of Jewish Prayer (a series of lectures on the construction of
Jewish prayers)
- Jews and Non-Jews: Communal Identity and Liturgy
Jewish Ethics:
- Gossip!: The Prohibition of Leshon Hara
- Honoring One’s Parents: The Adult Challenge
Jewish-Christian Relations:
- Dabru Emet: A New Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity
- Changes in Christian Thinking About Judaism
- Jewish Responses to Christian Anti-Judaism
- Jewish-Christian Relations in the Twenty-First Century (on the issues of
the contemporary dialogue)
- Toledot Yeshu: Understanding a Medieval Jewish Gospel Parody
- Are They Just "Goyim"?: Jewish Thinking About Other Religions
For Christian or Mixed Jewish and Christian Audiences:
- Most of the topics listed above
- Jerusalem: The Heart of the Jewish World (with
slides/powepoint)
- Approaches to our Sacred Text: Jews and Christians Living
with the Bible
- The Medieval Jewish-Christian Encounter
- Women and Men in Genesis: Jewish Understandings
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