Ruth Lapide

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Ruth Lapide b. Rosenblatt (* Schawuot 1929 in Burghaslach , Middle Franconia ) is an important Jewish religious scholar and historian . As the longtime wife of Pinchas Lapide , she became known for her great services to the Judeo-Christian dialogue , especially from 1997 through numerous interviews with Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR-alpha) and Bible TV (“The Bible from a Jewish perspective”) Discovery of gross mistranslations in the Holy Scriptures as well as the understanding of the Federal Republic of Germany with the State of Israel and the rapprochement of the three major book religions . Ruth Lapide has been awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

Ruth Lapide received a private audience with five different popes and is regularly called in as a consultant at bishops' conferences . Since 2007 she has also been appointed honorary professor at the Evangelical University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg and since 2008 as a doctorate at the Evangelical Augustana University in Neuendettelsau .

Life

Ruth Lapide was born in Burghaslach in Central Franconia as the daughter of the Jewish rabbi family Rosenblatt and was born there in June 1929 at the Jewish week of Shavuot , which is celebrated 50 days after the Passover (in Jewish tradition also Ruth's and King David's birthdays and the Decalogue gift on Mount Sinai). Her maternal line can be traced back to the 12th century in Lower Franconia and her paternal line in Middle Franconia . Lapides ancestors worked here until the 19th century. According to Lapide, the surname Rosenblatt was bought by her great-great-grandfather from the Bavarian authorities after Napoleon Bonaparte granted Jews the right to their own surname in the 19th century. Until then, their ancestors were named after the name of their father or mother. The traditional training of their family fathers to become rabbis usually took place within the framework of a yeshiva , a Talmud college in Würzburg . Lapide's father was a non-practicing rabbi, but active in the Jewish community, sometimes as mayor. Her whole family was active in Würzburg and Bamberg in establishing international wine trade relationships for Middle Franconian wine, including to France.

From 1933 the systematic destruction of Jewish culture began and the elimination of Jews from all areas of life in Bavaria began gradually and then increasingly. Ruth Lapide was forbidden from attending kindergarten and school, and her father and Martin Buber were banned from working as soon as Hitler came to power. Because of the persecution by the Nazi regime, the family had to live hidden in the forest for a time. In order to escape the murder in the German concentration camps, the family fled Germany to Palestine in 1938 . As a 9-year-old girl, Ruth Lapide came to Palestine and Haifa with the youth aliya in a children's home.

The children of Jugendalija were given the opportunity to attend primary school in the nearest village school in Haifa. So Lapide started school at the age of nine and learned the Hebrew language , arithmetic, reading and writing. She had to finance her school materials with tutoring in arithmetic from wealthy Palestinians. After finishing school, Lapide trained as a bank clerk and learned English , Aramaic , Greek and Latin . During this time she also took care of the sick Jews who had been spared the Shoah and who had emigrated to Palestine.

After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Lapide studied political science, the history of the Second Temple , the history of Europe and Jewish studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . The development of Christianity within Judaism was a special focus of study. Ruth Lapide increasingly became a connoisseur of the First and Second Testaments and was exceptional in that most religious scholars limit themselves to either one or the other, ergo either Jewish or Christian arguing.

In the early 1950s, Ruth met the diplomat and head of the Israeli government's press office, Pinchas Lapide . She married him; the couple had a son, Yuval Lapide .

After Pinchas and Ruth Lapide received several teaching positions worldwide as Jewish religious scholars, especially in the USA and Germany, they both decided in 1974 to return to Germany for good and chose Frankfurt am Main as their new adopted home. According to Lapides, the decision matured with the feeling “If not we, then who will, to enlighten the people there where the root of the evil was and where a reconciliation between Christians and Jews is needed more urgently than ever, so that such an evil never repeats itself ". Ruth Lapide and her husband wrote more than 35 books that were translated into twelve languages ​​and published under her husband's name. At the side of Pinchas Lapide she pioneered the Judeo-Christian dialogue and the insight into an urgently needed correction of gross mistakes in the Bible, the understanding between the Federal Republic of Germany and the State of Israel and the rapprochement of the three major book religions .

After Pinchas Lapide's death in 1997, Ruth Lapide and Yuval Lapide continued to work for. Ruth Lapide started a career as an author, gives regular lectures at home and abroad and gives numerous interviews with Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR-alpha) and Bibel TV (“The Bible from a Jewish perspective”). Since 2007 she has been appointed honorary professor at the Evangelical University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg and since 2008 as a doctorate at the Evangelical Augustana University in Neuendettelsau .

honors and awards

Ruth Lapide has received many awards, including from

Honorary Professor of the State of Hesse

Works

Most of Ruth Lapide's publications appeared under the name of her husband Pinchas Lapide. The following works are published under her name:

  • Do you know Adam the weakling? , Kreuz Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-7831-2224-4
  • Do you know Jakob, the celebrity chef? , Kreuz Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-7831-2320-8
  • with Henning Röhl: What did Jesus believe? / Come, Mr. Messiah! , Kreuz Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-7831-2589-4
  • with Walter Flemmer: Love, Lust and Passion Family Dramas in the Bible, 200 pages, Kreuz Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-451-61076-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare Ruth Lapide in an interview with Henning Röhl for Bibel TV "Lauf des Lebens".
  2. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  3. ↑ Announcement 822. ( Memento from March 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hessischer Staatsanzeiger. From September 1, 2003, No. 35, p. 3478. Retrieved April 14, 2015. (PDF; 477 kB)
  4. ^ District awarded Wolfram von Eschenbach Prize. In: Nürnberger Zeitung . October 27, 2012, accessed April 14, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Lapide, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenblatt, Ruth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish theologian and religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Burghaslach