{{Short description|British Reform rabbi and historian}} {{Use British English|date=September 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox academic |honorific_prefix=<!-- see MOS:CREDENTIAL and MOS:HONORIFIC --> |name= |honorific_suffix= |birth_name=<!-- use only if different from full/othernames --> |birth_date= {{birth date and age|1944|08|07|df=y}} |birth_place= Nottingham, England |death_date=<!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> |death_place= |nationality= |residence= |other_names= |occupation= |period= |known_for= |title= |spouse= |children= |parents= |awards=<!--notable national-level awards only--> |website=https://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/directory/de-lange |education= |alma_mater=Christ Church, Oxford |influences=<!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> |era= |discipline=<!--major academic discipline – e.g. Physicist, Sociologist, New Testament scholar, Ancient Near Eastern Linguist--> |sub_discipline=<!--academic discipline specialist area – e.g. Sub-atomic research, 20th Century Danish specialist, Pauline research, Arcadian and Ugaritic specialist--> |workplaces=University of Cambridge |influenced=<!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> }}
'''Nicholas Robert Michael de Lange''' (born 7 August 1944) is a British Reform rabbi and historian. He is Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Cambridge.
==Academic and literary career == Nicholas de Lange is an emeritus fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge. He has written and edited several books about Judaism and translated numerous works of fiction by Amos Oz,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thejc.com/culture/features/amos-oz-s-reading-voice-was-beautiful-1.477933|title=Amos Oz's reading voice was beautiful. Translating his books was a marvellously fulfilling experience|first=Nicholas|last=De Lange|date=January 3, 2019|access-date=August 16, 2020|work=The Jewish Chronicle}}</ref> S. Yizhar and A. B. Yehoshua into English. In November 2007, he received the Risa Domb/Porjes Prize for Translation from the Hebrew for his translation of ''A Tale of Love and Darkness'' by Amos Oz.
He gives lectures on Modern Judaism and the Reading of Jewish texts at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
==Rabbinic career== De Lange is a Reform rabbi who studied with Ignaz Maybaum, a disciple of Franz Rosenzweig. He is the main rabbi of Etz Hayyim Synagogue in Chania.
== Published works == * ''Origen and the Jews: Studies in Jewish-Christian Relations in Third-Century Palestine'' (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, 25) (1976), Cambridge University Press * ''Apocrypha: Jewish Literature of the Hellenistic Age'' (Jewish Heritage Classics) (1978), New York: Viking Press * ''Atlas of the Jewish World'' (1984), Oxford: Phaidon Press * ''Judaism'' (1986), Oxford University Press * "Jesus Christ and Auschwitz" (1997), ''New Blackfriars'' Vol. 78, No. 917/918, pp. 308–316 * ''An Introduction to Judaism'' (2000), Cambridge University Press, {{ISBN|978-0521460736}}, pp. 272 * ''The Penguin Dictionary of Judaism'' (Penguin Reference Library) (2008), {{ISBN|978-0141018478}}, pp. 400
==References== {{reflist}} {{Reform Judaism in the United Kingdom}} {{Authority control}}
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