Dan Cohn-Sherbok
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Dan Cohn-Sherbok is a rabbi of Reform Judaism and a prolific author on religion. He is currently Professor of Jewish Theology at the University of Wales, Lampeter.
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[edit] Biography
Born 1945 in Denver, Colorado, he was a student at Williams College, Massachusetts, and the Hebrew Union College at Cincinnati. He served as Chaplain of the Colorado House of Representatives. He received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Cambridge in England. Later, he received a doctorate in divinity from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York. He taught theology at the University of Kent and served as Director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Society. In addition to his current position at the University of Wales, Lampeter where he is Professor of Judaism, he has served as Visiting Professor at the Universities of Essex, Middlesex, St. Andrews, Durham, Vilnius, Trinity College, Carmarthen, and St Mary's University College. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and Harris Manchester College, Oxford, a Corresponding Fellow of the Academy of Jewish Philosophy, and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, and a Member of the Arts and Humanisties Peer Review College. He has also served as a Visiting Scholar of Mansfield College, Oxford, the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Studies, and Sarum College. He is married to Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok.
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Contrary to the official position of Reform Judaism, Cohn-Sherbok is sympathetic to Messianic Judaism and Secular Humanistic Judaism, as well as the Order of the Lotus (which purports to be a Jewish-Buddhist synthesis). In his view, Judaism today is pluriform in nature: no longer is there an overarching authority which can determine correct belief and practice. As a consequence, the Jewish community has splintered into a variety of subgroups, ranging from the strictly Orthodox to the most liberal; in addition, some groups have syncretistically borrowed from other religious traditions.
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Cohn-Sherbok is the author and editor of over 80 books which have been translated into Russian, Greek, Bulgarian, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, and German, including:
- Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. The Paradox of Anti-Semitism. Hardcover ed. Continuum Int'l. Pub. Group, 2006.
- Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. The Politics of Apocalypse: the History and Influence of Christian Zionism. Paperback ed. Oneworld Publications, 2006.
- Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. Vision of Judaism: Wrestling with God. Paperback ed. Continuum Int'l. Pub. Group, 2004.
- Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. Judaism: History, Belief and Practice. Paperback ed. Taylor & Francis, Inc., 2003.
- Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. Anti-Semitism. Hardcover ed. Sutton Pub., 2002.
- Cohn-Sherbok, Dan, comp. Holocaust Theology: a Reader. Ed. Dan Cohn-Sherbok. New York: New York Univ. Pr., 2002.
- Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. Interfaith Theology: a Reader. Ed. Dan Cohn-Sherbok. Oneworld Pub., 2002.
- El-Alami, Dawoud, and Daniel C. Cohn-Sherbok. The Palestine-Israeli Conflict: a Beginner's Guide. Paperback ed. Oneworld Books, 2001.
- Cohn-Sherbok, Dan, ed. Voices of Messianic Judaism: Confronting Critical Issues Facing a Modern Movement. Messianic Jewish Pub., 2001.
- Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. Messianic Judaism. Paperback ed. Continuum Int'l. Pub. Group, 2000.
- Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. The Crucified Jew: Twenty Centuries of Christian Anti-Semitism. Paperback ed. Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1997.
- Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. Atlas of Jewish History. Paperback ed. Taylor & Francis, Inc., 1996.
- Cohn-Sherbok, Daniel. Modern Judaism: From Jewish Diversity to a New Philosophy of Judaism. Hardcover ed. St. Martin's Pr., 1996.
- Cohn-Sherbok, Dan, and Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok. Jewish and Christian Mysticism: an Introduction. Hardcover ed. Continuum Co., 1994.
- Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. Judaism and Other Faiths. Hardcover ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 1994.
- Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. World Religions and Human Liberation. Harcover ed. Orbis Books, 1994.
- Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. The Jewish Faith. Paperback ed. Continuum Int'l. Pub. Group, 1993.
- Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. Dictionary of Judaism and Christianity. Continuum Int'l. Pub. Group, 1991.
- Cohn-Sherbok, Dan, ed. Islam in a World of Diverse Faiths. Macmillan Academic and Professional Ltd., 1991.
