Gerhard Langer

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Gerhard Josef Langer (born May 27, 1960 in Schwarzach im Pongau ) is an Austrian Catholic theologian and Judaist .

Career

Gerhard Langer (2008)

Langer studied theology, ancient Semitic philology and Jewish studies at the universities of Salzburg and Vienna from 1978 to 1983 . After his school service, Langer initially worked as a university assistant at what was later called the Institute for Old Testament Biblical Studies and Judaic Studies (today: Department of Biblical Studies and Church History) and was awarded a Dr. theol. PhD. In 1996 he completed his habilitation ( 'Live through your blood!' Ez 16 in the rabbinical reception ). Langer was responsible for the supervision of Jewish studies at the Salzburg Institute, since 1997 as associate professor. After substituting professorships in Lucerne and Freiburg im Breisgau , Langer took over the management of the Center for Jewish Cultural History at the University of Salzburg from 2004 to 2010 . In 2010 Langer was appointed professor for the history, religion and literature of Judaism in rabbinical times at the University of Vienna.

Langer is on the management team of the university research center Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society in Vienna.

He is co-editor of the series Poetics, Exegesis and Narrative (Vienna University Press, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht). Langer is on the board of various magazines and series.

Research priorities

Langer deals intensively with all aspects of Jewish cultural history and identity formation, especially in antiquity, as well as with rabbinical interpretation and Judaism in literature. He has presented a number of studies of the history of reception on biblical texts and has made a particularly prominent contribution to diaspora research. Langer also deals with the coming to terms with Christian anti-Judaism and coming to terms with the past. His first crime novel with the Viennese investigator Michael Winter was published in 2018.

Publications (selection)

  • Chosen by God - Jerusalem. The reception of Dtn 12 in early Judaism , Klosterneuburg 1989.
  • The federal drama. Ezekiel 16 from a rabbinical perspective , Freiburg a. a. 1997.
  • with Matthias Millard (ed.): Bible and Midrash. On the importance of rabbinical exegesis for biblical studies , Tübingen 1998.
  • with Armin Eidherr and Karl Müller (eds.): Diaspora exile as a crisis experience. Jewish balance sheets and perspectives (Zwischenwelt 10), Klagenfurt 2006.
  • People education. Rabbinical matters on learning and teaching beyond PISA (change of staff 3), Vienna-Cologne-Weimar: Böhlau 2012.
  • Midrash (textbook series Jewish studies; UTB). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2016, 368 pages, ISBN 978-3-8252-4675-4 . UTB volume 4675
  • "Let the Wise Listen and Add to Their Learning" (Prov 1: 5). Festschrift for Günter Stemberger on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday (with Constanza Cordoni) (Studia Judaica 90). Berlin - Boston: de Gruyter 2016.
  • Does the Judeo-Christian dialogue have a future (with Edith Petschnigg and Irmtraud Fischer) (poetics, exegesis and narrative 9). Göttingen 2017.
  • In the end man created ... Edition Tandem, 2010 (detective novel).
  • Grace is death . Munich: Goldmann 2018 (detective novel).

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personal data
SURNAME Langer, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langer, Gerhard Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Catholic theologian and Judaist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwarzach im Pongau