Daniel Langton

Profile:

• PhD (Southampton)
• BA (Southampton)
• PGDip (London)
• PGCert Ed (Manchester)

Specific research interests:

I am interested in the history of Jewish-Christian relations in general, modern Jewish thought, Holocaust Theology, and Anglo-Jewish history. I am also interested in Jewish approaches to the New Testament for what they reveal about modern Jewish identity. My study of Claude Montefiore (1858-1938), founder of Anglo-Liberal Judaism and President of the Anglo-Jewish Association, sought to identify him as a significant figure in the contexts of modern Jewish religious thought, Jewish-Christian relations, and Anglo-Jewish socio-politics.

Forthcoming Publication:

The Apostle Paul in the Jewish Imagination: A Study in Ideology. This project adopts a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding Jewish approaches to Paul, one of the most influential Christian authorities of all time. The ideologies of individual Jewish theologians, religious leaders and New Testament scholars of the last 150 years, alongside artistic, literary, philosophical, and psychological approaches, are contextualised by reference to the history of popular cultural attitudes.

Supervision areas:

I have four PhD students whose research topics include:

• 'A Critical Evaluation of the use of Mysticism in Holocaust Theology',
• 'Post-Holocaust Jewish-Christian Dialogue: Symbol and Representation',
• 'Teaching the Holocaust: A Cross-Disciplinary Critique of Holocaust Educational Activities', and
• 'Hugh Schonfield and Messianic Judaism'.

Current teaching:

RELT70811: Jewish Approaches to Jesus and Paul
RELT20611: Introduction to the History of Jewish-Christian Relations
RELT30332: Holocaust Theology
M809: Land of Promise and Conflict: Challenges for Interfaith Understanding (MA for Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, University of Cambridge)

I was awarded University of Manchester Teaching Excellence Award in 2006.

Other Activities:

I am Secretary of the British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS), and co-editor of Melilah - Manchester Journal of Jewish Studies. I am a tutor for the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations at the University of Cambridge, and an Honorary Fellow of the Parkes Institute for Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton.

Other interests include martial arts.