Professor Dan Cohn-Sherbok

Honorary Professor
Photograph of Professor Dan Cohn-Sherbok .

Contact

Email: cohnsherbok@googlemail.com
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Biography

Professor Dan Cohn-Sherbok was born in Denver, Colorado and was educated at Williams College. He was ordained a Reform Rabbi at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion where he gained a doctorate in divinity. He served congregations in Jasper, Alabama; Galesburg, Illinois, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; and Denver, Colorado.

Subsequently he was a Rabbi in Melbourne, Australia; London, England; and Johannesburg, South Africa. He received a doctorate in philosophy from Cambridge University, England and from 1975 taught Jewish theology at the University of Kent, Canterbury.

Rabbi Professor Dan Cohn-Sherbok was Professor of Judaism at the University of Wales, Lampeter and is currently Visiting Professor at St Mary's University College, London, and Honorary Professor at the University of Aberystwyth.

Staff Publications

Professor Dan Cohn Sherbok is the author and editor of over 70 books including:

  • On Earth as it is in Heaven: Jews, Christians, and Liberation Theology
  • The Jewish Heritage
  • Holocaust Theology
  • Issues in Contemporary Judaism
  • The Blackwell Dictionary of Judaica
  • A Dictionary of Judaism and Christianity
  • Israel: The History of an Idea
  • An Atlas of Jewish History
  • The Jewish Faith
  • Judaism and Other Faiths
  • The Future of Judaism
  • Jewish Mysticism: An Introduction
  • Jewish and Christian Mysticism
  • Modern Judaism
  • The Jewish Messiah
  • Medieval Jewish Philosophy: An Introduction
  • Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers
  • After Noah: Animals and the Liberation of Theology
  • Islam in a World of Diverse Faiths
  • World Religions and Human Liberation
  • The Concise Encyclopedia of Judaism
  • Messianic Judaism
  • Understanding the Holocaust
  • Jews, Christians and Religious Pluralism
  • The Palestine-Israeli Conflict
  • Judaism: History, Belief and Practice.
  • Dictionary of Jewish Biography