Norman Solomon (rabbi)

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Norman Solomon
Born (1933-05-31) May 31, 1933 (age 90)
Cardiff, South Wales
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Manchester
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford, Graduate Theological Foundation

Norman Solomon (born 31 May 1933)

Jewish–Christian relations
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Biography

Norman Solomon was born in

Birmingham, England. He was later director of the Centre for the Study of Judaism and Jewish-Christian Relations at the Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham and a Fellow in Modern Jewish Thought at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.[2] He was also lecturer in Theology at the University of Oxford. He currently holds the position of Professor of Judaica at the Graduate Theological Foundation. A former Vice President of the World Congress of Faiths, a Patron of the International Interfaith Centre and an Adviser to the International Council of Christians and Jews, he has been actively involved in interfaith dialogue
with Christians and Muslims. He has written five books and over seventy articles on a wide range of issues in the fields of Jewish studies and Jewish–Christian relations. He has also edited a number of volumes in these fields. His major works include his books Judaism and World Religion, The Analytic Movement: Hayyim Soloveitchik and His School, The Talmud: A Selection and Torah from Heaven.

Publications

  • Judaism and World Religion (1991)
  • (1991), "The Soloveitchik Line (On Interfaith Dialogue)," Dan Cohn-Sherbok (ed.), Problems in Contemporary Jewish Theology, pp. 225–240
  • The Analytic Movement: Hayyim Soloveitchik and His School (1993)
  • A Very Short Introduction to Judaism (1996)
  • Judaism: A Brief Insight (1996)
  • Historical Dictionary of Judaism (1998)
  • The Talmud: A Selection (2009)
  • Torah from Heaven (2012)
  • Making Sense of "God" (2023)

As co-editor

References

  1. ^ . Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  2. ^ Rosen, Jeremy (25 September 2013). "Torah & Norman Solomon". Algemeiner Journal. Retrieved 19 May 2021.

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