Publications

Books

Enabling Dialogue about the Land: A Resource Book for Jews and Christians, ed. Philip Cunningham, Ruth Langer, Jesper Svartvik (New York/Mahwah, NJ: Stimulus/Paulist Press, 2020).

Jewish Liturgy: A Guide to Research (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

Cursing the Christians?: A History of the Birkat HaMinim (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Liturgy in the Life of the Synagogue: Studies in the History of Jewish Prayer, ed. Ruth Langer and Steven Fine (Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2005).

To Worship God Properly: Tensions between Liturgical Custom and Halakhah in Judaism (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1998; paperback 2005).

Scholarly Articles

“Shifting Jewish Liturgical Responses to Plagues,” in Liturgie und Pastoral im Kontext von Pandemien und Epidemien. Vom Spätmittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, ed. Benedikt Kranemann et al., Liturgiewissenschaftliche Quellen und Forschungen 117 (Muenster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2024), 207-227.
“The Priority of Interhuman Confession and Reconciliation,” in James W. Bernauer, SJ, editor, Auschwitz & Absolution? The Case of the Commandant and the Confessor? (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2024), 108-113.
“The Early Medieval Emergence of Jewish Daily Morning Psalms Recitation, Pesuqe de-Zimra,” in The Power of Psalms in Post-Biblical Judaism: Liturgy, Ritual and Community, ed. Claudia Bergmann, Tessa Rajak, Benedikt Kranemann, and Rebecca Ulrich (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2023), 222-240.
"Continuity and Change: The Past Half-Century of Jewish Liturgical Life,” for Renewals in Retrospect: Fifty Years of Worship Scholarship amidst the Changing Worlds of Worship, special issue of Liturgy 37.4 (2022): 47-51, https://doi.org/10.1080/0458063X.2022.2121098.
"Synagogue," Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations Online (DeGruyter, 2022), https://doi.org/10.1515/ejcro.4416241.
“Christianity,” in Routledge Handbook of Jewish Ritual and Practice, ed. Oliver Leaman (London/New York: Routledge, 2023), 558-567.
“Were Early Rabbinic Prayers Scripted?,” in forum on “Jewish Prayer in Antiquity,” Ancient Jew Review, (May 15, 2022), https://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2022/5/5/were-early-rabbinic-prayers-scripted?fbclid=IwAR1PMxZ2vYhn0VrJQozI8POZYiEMOmDAWlPihy7jQsxXxD1cLJLkmbdasw0.
“Turning to Jerusalem from the Exile: Jewish Liturgy’s Engagement with the Diaspora,” Oxford Handbook of the Jewish Diaspora, ed. Hasia Diner (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021), 55-72.
“Liturgy, Ritual, Worship,” with Clemens Leonhard, Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations Online (DeGruyter, 2021), https://doi.org/10.1515/ejcro.4414975.
“Jewish Liturgical Responses to the Roman Destruction of the Temple,” The Yale ISM Review 6, no. 1, Article 3 (2021), http://ismreview.yale.edu/article/jewish-liturgical-responses-to-the-roman-destruction-of-the-temple/.
“Rabbis, Nonrabbis and Synagogues in Roman Palestine: Theory and Reality,” in Synagogues in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods: Archaeological Finds, New Methods, New Theories, ed. Lutz Doering and Andrew R. Krause, in co-operation with Hermut Löhr; Ioudaioi 11 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020), 253-276.
“Jewish Liturgy During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Vignettes from Boston Suburbs,” in Gottesdienst auf eigene Gefahr: Die Feier der Liturgie in der Zeit von Covid-19, Worship at Your Own Risk?, ed. Hans-Juergen Feulner (Münster: Aschendorff-Verlag, 2020), 445-457 (DOI [entire volume]: 10.17438/978-3-402-24740-2). See also a lightly revised and updated version in Contemporary Jewry 41, no. 1 (2021): 23-37; https://doi.org/10.1007/s12397-021-09363-5.
“Israel in Jewish Theologies: A Schematic Overview,” in Enabling Dialogue about the Land: A Resource Book for Jews and Christians, ed. Philip Cunningham, Ruth Langer, Jesper Svartvik (New York/Mahwah, NJ: Stimulus/Paulist Press, 2020), 43-62.
“Judaism and Dialogue on the Role of Reason,” in Dieu de raison ou de violence?, ed. Gabriele Palasciano (Lyon, France: Olivétan, 2020), 183-189.
”Jewish Universalism?: The Nations in the Rosh Hashanah Liturgy,” Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 15, no. 1 (2020), 20 pages. https://doi.org/10.6017/scjr.v15i1.12349, https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/scjr/article/view/12349/9971
“Re-Examining the Early Evidence for Rabbinic Liturgy: How Fixed Were Its Prayer Texts?” with Richard S. Sarason, in On Wings of Prayer: Sources of Jewish Worship; Essays in Honor of Professor Stefan C. Reif on the Occasion of his Seventy-fifth Birthday, Nuria Calduch-Benages, Michael W. Duggan, and Dalia Marx, eds., Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 44 (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2019), 203-231, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110630282-014.
“Prophetic Universalism and Particularism in Jewish Liturgy,” in Righting Relations after the Holocaust and Vatican II: Essays in Honor of John T. Pawlikowski, OSM, ed. Elena G. Procario-Foley and Robert A. Cathey (New York, Mahwah NJ: A Stimulus Book, Paulist Press, 2018), 253-269.
“New Directions in Understanding Jewish Liturgy,” in Early Judaism: New Insights and Scholarship, ed. Fredrick Greenspahn (New York: New York University Press, 2018), 147-173.
“Yearning for Zion in Jewish Tradition,” in The Medieval Roots of Antisemitism: Continuities and Discontinuities from the Middle Ages to the Present Day, ed. Jonathan Adams and Cordelia Hess (New York/London: Routledge, 2018), 377-391.
“The Minhag of Parents’ Blessing Their Children,” in The Modern Child and Jewish Law: Infancy through Adolescence, Essays and Responsa, ed. Walter Jacob (Pittsburgh: Solomon B. Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakahah, Rodef Shalom Press, 2017), 187-202.
“A Jewish Response to Gavin D’Costa, Vatican II: Catholic Doctrines on Jews and Muslims,” Louvain Studies 40 (2017): 273-285.
“Birkat ha-Minim: A Jewish Curse of Christians?,” in The Jewish Annotated New Testament, 2nd edition, edited by Marc Z. Brettler and Amy-Jill Levine (Oxford University Press, 2017), 653-654.
“’Gifts and Calling’: The Fruits of Coming to Know Living Jews,” Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 12 (2017): 1-10, http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr/article/view/9797/8598.
“Jewish Liturgy,” in the online Religion: Oxford Research Encyclopedias (August 2016), http://religion.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-70.
“Mapping Medieval Rites: A Methodological Proposal,” in Jewish Prayer: New Perspectives, ed. Uri Ehrlich (Beer Sheva: Ben Gurion University, 2016), 31-70.
“Christoph Wallich’s Polemical Discussion of Aleynu and its Context,” in Die Greifswalder Lehrsynagoge Johann Friedrich Mayers: Ein Beispiel christlicher Rezeption des Judentums im 18. Jahrhundert, ed. Christfried Böttrich, Thomas K. Kuhn, Daniel Stein Kokin (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2016), 485-500.
“Hallel,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, Volume 11, ed. Dale C. Allison, Jr., et. al. (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016), 38-39.
“Halleluyah,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, Volume 11, ed. Dale C. Allison, Jr., et. al. (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016), 43-44.
“Birkat HaMinim,” “Hallel,” and “Blessings, Jewish,” in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, ed. Eric Olins et al. (New York/ Oxon: Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group, 2016), on line by subscription at https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781134625598/cfi/6/2[;vnd.vst.idref=Cover].
“The Blessings and Challenges of Interreligious Prayer,” in the Proceedings of the North American Academy of Liturgy (2015): 27-35.
“Jewish Reflections On Worshipping in a Religiously Pluralist Age: The Case of Aleynu,” Worship 89, no. 5 (September 2015): 393-406.
“Broadsides as Liturgical ‘Handouts’,” in The Writing on the Wall: A Catalogue of Broadsides from the Valmadonna Trust Collection, ed. Sharon Liberman Mintz, Shaul Seidler-Feller, and David Wachtel (London and New York: Valmadonna Trust Library, 2015), 32-47.
“Parameters of Hospitality for Interreligious Participation: A Jewish Perspective,” in Ritual Participation and Interreligious Dialogue. Boundaries, Transgressions and Innovations, ed. Marianne Moyaert and Joris Geldhof (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), 205-217.
“Grace after Meals,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, vol. 10 (De Gruyter on-line, 2015, www.degruyter.com/view/EBR/MainLemma_15363?rskey=0lZdjG&result=12&dbq_0=Langer&dbf_0=ebr-fulltext&dbt_0=fulltext&o_0=AND) .
“The Bible in the Liturgy,” in The Jewish Study Bible, ed. Marc Brettler and Adele Berlin, 2nd edition (New York: Oxford USA, 2014), 2057-2067.
“Investigations into the Early European Forms of the Ṣidduq Ha-Din,” in Death in Jewish Life: Burial and Mourning Customs Among Jews of Europe and Nearby Communities, ed. Stefan Reif, Andreas Lehnardt, and Avriel Bar-Levav (De Gruyter, 2014), 79-97.
“Eileh Ezkerah: Overview of the Liturgy,” in Machzor: Challenge and Change, Volume 2, Preparing for Mishkan HaNefesh and the High Holy Days, ed. Hara E. Person, Adena Kemper, Liz Piper-Goldberg (New York: Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2014), 129-133.
“Constructing Memory in Jewish Liturgy,” in Toward the Future: Essays on Catholic-Jewish Relations in Memory of Rabbi Leon Klenicki, ed. Celia Deutsch et.al. (New York: Paulist Press, 2013), 117-128.
“The Decalogue in Jewish Liturgy,” in The Decalogue and its Cultural Influence, edited by Dominik Markl (Sheffield Academic Press, 2013), 85-101.
“Naming and Addressing Jewish Teachings of Contempt,” (pp. 8) on the website of the International Abrahamic Forum, International Conference of Christians and Jews. http://www.iccj.org/fileadmin/ICCJ/pdf-Dateien/Langer_IAF2013.PDF.
“The Tzedah Laderekh’s Apologia for the Birkat Haminim,” in Ke-Tavor Be-Harim: Studies in Rabbinic Literature Presented to Joseph Tabory, Arnon Atzmon and Tzur Shafir (eds.) (Alon Shevut: Tevunot Press, 2013), 7*-39*.
“New Research Important for Jewish-Christian Dialogue: Jewish Theologies of Christianity,” in From the Martin Buber House 33 (Report of the International Council of Christians and Jews 2012 Conference, Manchester UK): 57-59. http://www.iccj.org/Ruth-Langer-Jewish-Theologies-of-Christianity.3867.0.html
“The Liturgical Parting(s) of the Ways: A Preliminary Foray,” in A Living Tradition: On the Intersection of Liturgical History and Pastoral Practice, David A. Pitt et al., eds. (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2012), 43-58.
“Putting the Performance of the Vidui in its Context,” in We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Context, Ashamnu and Al Chet, ed. Lawrence A. Hoffman (Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishers, 2012), 205-209.
Review Essay: “The Rabbinical Assembly’s Mahzor Lev Shalem (New York: Rabbinical Assembly, 2010), in the Journal of Synagogue Music 37 (Fall 2012): 205-213.
“Jewish Liturgical Memory and the Non-Jew: Past Realities and Future Possibilities,” in Jewish Theology and World Religions, ed. Alon Goshen-Gottstein and Eugene Korn (Oxford and Portland, OR: Littmann, 2012), 167-86.
“Cursing the Christians?: Origins of the Birkat HaMinim,” at The Bible and Interpretation, http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/lan368024.shtml.
“Worship,” in The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture, edited by Judith Baskin (Cambridge University Press, 2011), 663-665.
“The Censorship of Aleinu in Ashkenaz and its Aftermath,” in The Experience of Jewish Liturgy: Studies Dedicated to Menahem Schmelzer, edited by Debra Reed Blank (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2011), 147-166.
“Interreligious Prayer: Introduction,” with Stephanie Perdew VanSlyke, Liturgy 26:3 (2011): 1-10.
“Exploring the Interface of Dialogue and Theology: A Jewish Response to Christian Ruitishauser, Thomas Norris, and Liam Tracy,” in Christ Jesus and the Jewish People Today: New Explorations of Theological Interrelationships, ed. Philip A. Cunningham et.al. (Grand Rapids, Cambridge UK: Eerdmans, 2011), 287-295.
“Jewish Worship and Liturgy,” in The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture, edited by Judith Baskin and Kenneth Seeskin (Cambridge University Press, 2010), 337-356.
“The Presence of God in Jewish Liturgy,” in The Spirit in Worship and Worship in the Spirit, ed. Bryan Spinks, Teresa Berger (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2009), 25-39.
"Liturgy in the Light of Jewish-Christian Dialogue," Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 4 (2009), https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/scjr/article/view/1541/1395.
“Continuity, Change, and Retrieval: The New Reform Siddur,” review essay in the Journal of Synagogue Music 34 (Fall 2009): 208-223.
“Jews and the American Funeral," in Only in America: The Open Society and Jewish Law, edited by Walter Jacob and Moshe Zemer (Pittsburgh: Solomon B. Freehof Institute for Progressive Jewish Law, Rodef Shalom Press, 2009), 91-125.
“’We Do Not Even Know What To Do!’: A Foray into the Early History of Tahanun,” in Seeking the Favor of God, Vol. 3: The Impact of Penitential Prayer Beyond Second Temple Judaism, edited by Mark Boda, Daniel Falk, and Rodney Werline (Society for Biblical Literature, 2008), 39-69.
“Theologies of the Land and State of Israel: The Role of the Secular in Christian and Jewish Understandings” Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 3 (2008): 1-17, https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/scjr/article/view/1478/1331.
“Jewish-Christian Dialogue About Covenant” Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 2:2 (2007): https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/scjr/article/view/1441/1450 and a response to the Rev. Dr. William Bellinger’s companion piece, “Exploring Covenant in a World of Faiths,” https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/scjr/article/view/1440/1449.
“Biblical Texts in Jewish Prayers: Their History and Function,” in Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship: New Insights into its History and Interaction, edited by Albert Gerhards and Clemens Leonhard, Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series 15 (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2007), 63-90.
“The Earliest Texts of the Birkat Haminim,” with Uri Ehrlich, Hebrew Union College Annual 76 (2006): 63-112.
“Liturgy,” in Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd edition (2006), Vol. 13, pp. 131-139 [major revision and expansion of Ernst Goldschmidt’s entry in the first edition].
A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations, edited by Edward Kessler and Neil Wenborn (Cambridge University Press, 2005), entries on "Amidah" (pp. 12-13), "Birkat Hamazon" (pp. 59-60), "Birkat Haminim" (p. 60), "Bread" (p. 64), "Candle" (p. 75), "Intercessions" (p. 210), "Wine" (pp. 445-446).
“Sinai, Zion, and God in the Synagogue: Celebrating Torah in Ashkenaz,” in Liturgy in the Life of the Synagogue: Studies in the History of Jewish Prayer, ed. Ruth Langer and Steven Fine (Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2005), 121-159.
“Worship and Devotional Life: Jewish Worship,” in the Encyclopedia of Religion (second edition, 2005), 14:9805-9809.
“The Liturgical Writings of J. Leonard Levy: The Judaism of an American Reform Rabbi,” in Pursuing Peace Across the Alleghenies: The Rodef Shalom Congregation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1856-2005, edited by Walter Jacob (Pittsburgh: Rodef Shalom Press, 2005), 201-230.
“Theologies of Self and Other in Jewish Liturgies,” CCAR Journal: A Reform Jewish Quarterly (Winter 2005): 3-41.
“Prayer and Worship,” in Modern Judaism: An Oxford Guide, edited by Nicholas de Lange and Miri Freud-Kandel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 231-242.
“Early Rabbinic Liturgy in its Palestinian Milieu: Did Non-Rabbis Know the ‘Amidah?” in When Judaism and Christianity Began: Essays in Memory of Anthony J. Saldarini, ed. Daniel Harrington, Alan J. Avery-Peck, and Jacob Neusner (Leiden and Boston: E. J. Brill, Supplements to Review of Rabbinic Judaism, 2004), pp. 423-439.
“Jewish Understandings of the Religious Other,” Theological Studies 64 (2003): 255-277.
“The Amidah as Formative Jewish Prayer,” in Identität durch Gebet: Zur gemeinschaftsbildenden Funktion institutionalisierten Betens in Judentum und Christentum, ed. Albert Gerhards, Andrea Doeker and Peter Ebenbauer (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2003), 127-156.
“Early Medieval Celebrations of Torah in the Synagogue: A Study of the Rituals of the Seder Rav Amram Gaon and Massekhet Soferim,” [Hebrew: שלבים קדומים בהתפתחותה של הוצאת התורה והכנסתה בבית הכנסת בימי הביניים: עיון בטקסים של סדר רב עמרם גאון ושל מסכת סופרים ] Kenishta: Studies of the Synagogue World 2 (2003): 99-118.
“Jewish Practices” with Jael B. Paulus, in Volume 3 of The Encyclopedia of Christianity (Wm. B. Eerdmans, Brill, 2003), 45-49.
“A Jewish Response,” in Sic et Non: Encountering Dominus Iesus, edited by Stephen J. Pope and Charles Hefling (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2002), pp. 124-133.
“Jewish Liturgy: A Field on the Move Again,” AJS Perspectives (2001): 2-3.
“Jewish Funerals: A Ritual Description,” Proceedings of the North American Academy of Liturgy (2001): 108-122.
“Celebrating the Presence of the Torah: The History and Meaning of Reading Torah,” introduction to My People’s Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries, Minhag Ami, Vol. IV: Seder K’riat Hatorah, The Torah Service, ed. Lawrence A. Hoffman (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2000), pp. 19-27.
“Reflections on an Experience of Dialogue—‘Teaching About the Shoah: An Interreligious Conference’,” Journal for Ecumenical Studies 36:3-4 (Summer-Fall 1999): 501-503.
“Liturgy, History of,” “Liturgy, Reform,” and “Synagogue,” in Reader’s Guide to Judaism, Michael Terry, ed., (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000).
“Revisiting Early Rabbinic Liturgy: The Recent Contributions of Ezra Fleischer,” Prooftexts 19:2 (1999): 179-194.
“Considerations of Method: A Response to Ezra Fleischer,” Prooftexts 20:3 (2000): 384-387 [in answer to his “On the Origins of the ‘Amidah: Response to Ruth Langer,” 381-384].
“Liturgy and Sensory Experience,” in Christianity in Jewish Terms, ed. David Sandmel et.al., (Westview Press, 2000), 189-195.
“Approaching Divine Holiness: Issues in the Liturgical Use of the Kedushah,” The Rabbinical Assembly: Proceedings, 1997 (The Rabbinical Assembly, 1998): 147-148.
“Honor Your Father and Mother: Caregiving as an Halakhic Responsibility,” in Aging and the Aged in Jewish Law: Essays and Responsa (Pittsburgh: Freehof Institute for Progressive Halakhah, 1998): 21-41. Reprinted in That You May Live Long: Caring for Our Aging Parents, Caring for Ourselves, ed. Richard F. Address and Hara E. Person (New York: UAHC Press, 2003), pp. 113-126, 184-187.
“From Study of Scripture to Reenactment of Sinai,” Worship 72:1 (January 1998): 43-67; reprinted in the Journal of Synagogue Music 31:1 (Fall 2006): 104-125. Reprinted in the Journal of Synagogue Music 31:1 (Fall 2006): 104-125 as “From Study of Scripture to a Reenactment of Sinai: The Emergence of the Synagogue Torah Service.”
“The Language and Experience of Tefillah,” with Alex Bornes-Weil and Bonna Devora Haberman, in Exploring Issues of Gender and Jewish Day School Education, 1997.
“Kalir Was A Tanna: Rabbenu Tam’s Invocation of Antiquity in Defense of the Ashkenazi Payyetanic Tradition,” Hebrew Union College Annual LXVII (1996): 95-106.
“Communications Theory and Worship: James W. Carey’s Communication as Culture and its Reception,” Proceedings of the North American Academy of Liturgy, 1997, 147-163.
“Birkat Betulim: A Study of the Jewish Celebration of Bridal Virginity,” Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research LXI (1995): 53-94.

Book Reviews

Review Essay on Ch. 8, Karma Ben-Johanan, Jacob’s Younger Brother: Christian-Jewish Relations after Vatican II, published in a review forum in Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 18 (2023): 1-10 (https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/scjr/article/view/17127/12027).
Review of Gavin D’Costa, Catholic Doctrines on the Jewish People after Vatican II (Oxford University Press, 2019), in Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 15:1 (2020), 4 pp., https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/scjr/article/view/12595/10075.
Review of Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, Moses: A Human Life (New Haven/Cambridge: Yale University Press, 2016), in Theological Studies 79 no. 2 (2018): 428-430.
Review of Jacob Rader Marcus and Marc Saperstein, The Jews in Christian Europe: A Source Book, 315-1791 (np: Hebrew Union College Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), in European Judaism 50:1 (Spring 2017): 163-166.
Review of Stefan C. Reif, Jewish Prayer Texts from the Cairo Geniza: A Selection of Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library, Introduced, Transcribed, Translated, Annotated, with Images, Cambridge Geniza Studies Series Volume 7 (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2016), in AJSReview 41, no. 1 (2017): 256-258, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0364009417000253
Review of Michel Bollag and Christian Rutishauser S.J., Ein Jude und ein Jesuit im Gespräch über Religion in turbulenter Zeit (Ostfildern: Mattias Grünewald Verlag der Schwabenverlag, 2015), in Journal of Jesuit Studies 4, no. 1 (2017): 168-170 DOI: 10.1163/22141332-00401005-23, http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/22141332-00401005-23.
Jeremy Brown, New Heavens and a New Earth: The Jewish Reception of Copernican Thought (Oxford, 2013) in Theological Studies 75:3 (2014): 695.
Elisheva Carlebach and Jacob J. Schacter, eds., New Perspectives on Jewish-Christian Relations in Honor of David Berger (Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2012) in Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 8 (2013), http://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/scjr/article/view/5190.
Dirk Monshouwer, The Gospels and Jewish Worship: Bible and Synagogal Liturgy in the First Century C.E. (Skandalon, 2010) in Worship 86:2 (March 2012): 187-189.
Adiel Schremer, Brothers Estranged: Heresy, Christianity and Jewish Identity in Late Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 2010), in Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 5 (2010), http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol5/iss1/26/.
Stefan Reif, Problems with Prayers: Studies in the Textual History of Early Rabbinic Liturgy, Vol. 37 Studia Judaica, Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums (Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2006), 369 pp. + xv, in Journal of Jewish Studies 60:2 (2009): 339-340.
Yaakov Y. Teppler, Birkat HaMinim: Jews and Christians in Conflict in the Ancient World, trans. Susan Weingarten (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007), in Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 4 (2009), http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol4/iss1/11/.
סדר התפלות Forms of Prayer, I: Daily, Sabbath and Occasional Prayers, Eighth Edition (London: The Movement for Reform Judaism, 2008), European Judaism 41, no. 2 (2008): 167-172.
Uneasy Allies?: Evangelical and Jewish Relations, ed. by Alan Mittleman, Byron Johnson, and Nancy Isserman. (Lexington Books, 2007), in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, May 2008; and a fuller review in Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 3 (2008), http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol3/iss1/12.
Jeremy Schonfield, Undercurrents of Jewish Prayer (Oxford, Portland Oregon: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2006) in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, August, 2007.
Peter Schäfer, Jesus in the Talmud (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007), in Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, 2:1 (2007) http://escholarship.bc.edu/scjr/vol2/iss1/13/.
Prayers that Cite Scripture, ed. James L. Kugel (Cambridge: Harvard University Press for Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, 2006), in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, May 2007.
Shaye J.D. Cohen, Why Aren’t Jewish Women Circumcised?: Gender and Covenant in Judaism, in Journal of Interdisciplinary History XXXVII (Winter, 2007): 435-437.
Irreconcilable Differences? A Learning Resource for Jews and Christians, ed. David F. Sandmel, Rosann M. Catalano, Christopher M. Leighton (Boulder: Westview Press, 2001), in Review and Expositor 103:1 (Winter 2006): 259-261.
Eric Caplan, From Ideology to Liturgy: Reconstructionist Worship and American Liberal Judaism, in American Jewish Archives LV:2 (2003): 59-62.
Allison P. Coudert and Jeffrey S. Shoulson, editors, Hebraica Veritas?: Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (February 2005).
James F. Moore, ed., Post-Shoah Dialogues: Rethinking Our Texts Together, Studies in the Shoah Volume XXV (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2004), in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (November 2004).
Marc A. Krell, Intersecting Pathways: Modern Jewish Theologians in Conversation with Christianity, in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (June 2004).
Jeffrey Summit, The Lord’s Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship, AJSReview 27:2 (November 2003): 360-1.
Magonet, Jonathan. Talking to the Other: Jewish interfaith dialogue with Christians and Muslims, in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (October 2003).
Neil Folberg, photographer, with an essay by Yom Tov Assis, And I Shall Dwell Among Them: Historic Synagogues of the World; and Samuel D. Gruber, Synagogues, in CCAR Journal: A Reform Jewish Quarterly (Summer 2003): 99-101.
Dana Evan Kaplan, ed., Platforms and Prayer Books: Theological and Liturgical Perspectives on Reform Judaism, in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (April 2003).
Seth Schwartz, Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 BCE to 640 CE, posted on the website of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning, http://www.bc.edu/dam/files/research_sites/cjl/texts/cjrelations/resources/reviews/Imperialism.htm.
James R. Davila. Liturgical Works. Eerdman’s Commentaries on the Dead Sea Scrolls, in Doxology: A Journal of Worship 18 (2001): 116-119.
James Carroll, Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History, in the CCAR Journal: A Reform Jewish Quarterly (Summer 2001): 98-102. Available also at http://www.bc.edu/dam/files/research_sites/cjl/texts/cjrelations/resources/reviews/Constantines_Sword.htm.
Chava Weissler, Voices of the Matriarchs: Listening to the Prayers of Early Modern Jewish Women, in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 69:1 (2001): 268-271.
Mary C. Boys, Has God Only One Blessing: Judaism as a Source for Christian Self-Understanding, in The SIDIC Review 2000, n. 3: 30-31. Available also at http://www.bc.edu/dam/files/research_sites/cjl/texts/cjrelations/resources/reviews/One_Blessing.htm.
Arthur Green, These are the Words: A Vocabulary of Jewish Spiritual Life. In the CCAR Journal: A Reform Jewish Quarterly (Winter 2000): 80-81.
Leon J. Weinberger, Jewish Hymnography: A Literary History. In AJSReview 24:1 (1999): 128-130.
Leon J. Weinberger, Twilight of a Golden Age: Selected Poems of Abraham Ibn Ezra. In The Medieval Review (on line), 98.12.08 (http://dns.hti.umich.edu/bmr).
My People’s Prayer Book, Minhag Ami, Vol. I: The Sh’ma and its Blessings, edited by Lawrence Hoffman. CCAR Journal: A Reform Jewish Quarterly, Fall 1998: 65-68.
Kol Haneshamah: Shabbat Vehagim (new Reconstructionist prayerbook), in CCAR Journal: A Reform Jewish Quarterly (Winter 1997): 96-99.
Raymond P. Scheindlin’s translation of Ismar Elbogen, Jewish Liturgy, A Comprehensive History, Journal of Semitic Studies XL (Fall 1995): 353-354.
Stefan C. Reif, Judaism and Hebrew Prayer, Journal of Semitic Studies XL (Spring 1995): 152-153.

Brief Reviews in CCAR Journal: A Reform Jewish Quarterly:

Published Spring/Summer 1996:

- Randall M. Falk, Bright Eminence: The Life and Thought of Jacob Raider Marcus, Scholar, Mentor, Counsellor, for Three Generations of Rabbis and Lay Leaders of American Jewry.
- Moshe Mykoff and the Breslov Institute, The Empty Chair: Finding Hope and Joy: Timeless Wisdom for a Hasidic Master, Rebbe Nahman of Breslov.
- Arnold Posy, Mystic Trends in Judaism.

Published Fall 1996:

- Milton Steinberg, As a Driven Leaf.
- Lawrence A. Englander, The Mystical Study of the Book of Ruth: Midrash HaNe’elam of the Zohar to the Book of Ruth.
- Leo and Evelyn Turitz, The Jews of Early Mississippi.
- Simkha Y. Weintraub, Healing of Soul, Healing of Body, Spiritual Leaders Unfold the Strength and Solace in Psalms.
- Kathryn Tiersky, Judaism under Construction: A grandmother’s memoirs for Jews and the non-Jewish relatives.

Published Winter 1997:

- Judah Gribetz and Edward L. Greenstein, The Timetables of Jewish History: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish History.
- Werner Weinberg, Essays on Hebrew.
- Robert Kirschner, Baraita de-Melekhet Ha-Mishkan: A Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation.

Brief Reviews in Religious Studies Review:

- Miriam’s Well: Rituals for Jewish Women Around the Year, 13:2 (April, 1987).
- The Book of Modern Jewish Etiquette 14:2 (April, 1988).
- Studies in Jewish Prayer 18:2 (April, 1992).