RABBI DR. NORMAN SOLOMON
- Judaism
- United Kingdom
- Male
- United Kingdom, Western Asia
- World Congress of Faiths, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford
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Vice-President, World Congress of Faiths
Senior Associate, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford
Norman Solomon was born in Cardiff, and was educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge. He has served as rabbi to Orthodox congregations in Manchester, Liverpool, London and Birmingham. Currently, he is a member of Wolfson College of Oxford University and of the Oxford University Teaching and Research Unit in Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Throughout his career, Solomon has held many positions including Fellow in Modern Jewish Thought at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and Hebrew Centre lecturer in the Faculty of Theology, Oxford University. Moreover, he was previously the director of the Centre for the Study of Judaism and Jewish Christian Relations at the Selly Oak College, Birmingham, the president of the British Association for Jewish Studies, the vice-president of the World Congress of Faiths, and a Trustee of the International Interfaith Centre. An accomplished editor and author, he edited the Christian-Jewish Relations quarterly from 1985 to 1991, and has published several books, including “Judaism and World Religion” (1991), “The Analytic Movement: Hayyim Soloveitchik and his School” (1993), “A Very Short Introduction to Judaism” (Oxford University Press, 1996), “Historical Dictionary of Judaism” (3rd edition Rowman & Littlefield 2015), “The Talmud: A Selection” (Penguin Classics 2009) and “Torah from Heaven: The Reconstgruction of Faith” (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2012) . A selection of other titles of his many publications on interfaith relations are listed in the publications section below.
Main Publications
- 1.) Norman Solomon, Richard Harries, Tim Winter , ‘Pluralism from a Jewish Perspective,’ in Abraham’s Children: Jews, Christians and Muslims in Conversation : ‘Pluralism from a Jewish Perspective,’ in Abraham’s Children: Jews, Christians and Muslims in Conversation , Edinburgh: T&T Clark , 2006
- 2.) Norman Solomon, Richard Harries, Tim Winter , The Environment from a Jewish Perspective, in Abraham’s Children: Jews, Christians and Muslims in Conversation : The Environment from a Jewish Perspective, in Abraham’s Children: Jews, Christians and Muslims in Conversation , Edinburgh: T&T Clark , 2006
- 3.) Richard Sorabji and David Rodin , ‘The Ethics of War: Judaism’, in The Ethics of War: Shared Problems in Different Traditions : ‘The Ethics of War: Judaism’, in The Ethics of War: Shared Problems in Different Traditions , Aldershot U.K : , 2006
- 4.) Nazila Ghanea, Alan Stephens & Raphael Walden , ‘Religion and Human Rights with Special Reference to Judaism’, in Does God Believe in Human Rights : ‘Religion and Human Rights with Special Reference to Judaism’, in Does God Believe in Human Rights , Brill : , 2007
- 5.) Christiane Timmerman and Barbara Segaert , "Interreligious Dialogue from a Jewish Perspective." In How to Conquer the Barriers to Intercultural Dialogue : "Interreligious Dialogue from a Jewish Perspective." In How to Conquer the Barriers to Intercultural Dialogue , Brussels: Presses Interuniversitaires Européennes
- 6.) ‘Jewish Pilgrimage and Peace’, in Pilgrims and Pilgrimages as Peacemakers in Christianity, Judaism and Islam’ : ‘Jewish Pilgrimage and Peace’, in Pilgrims and Pilgrimages as Peacemakers in Christianity, Judaism and Islam’ , UK : Antón M. Pazos. Farnham , 2013
- 7.) ‘The Dialogue Experience: Reflections on a Decade of Engagement’, in From Encounter to Commitment: Interreligious Experience and Theological Engagement : ‘The Dialogue Experience: Reflections on a Decade of Engagement’, in From Encounter to Commitment: Interreligious Experience and Theological Engagement , A Berlis and Douglas Pratt , 2015
- 8.) Frank Cranmer, Mark Hill, Celia Kenny and Russell Sandberg , ‘Public law and traditional faith’, in The Confluence of Law and Religion: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Work of Norman Doe : ‘Public law and traditional faith’, in The Confluence of Law and Religion: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Work of Norman Doe , Cambridge University Press , 2016