Bernhard Lang is a German biblical scholar and cultural historian born in 1946. For many years he taught at the University of Paderborn, with which he has been associated since 1985 [1] He is perhaps best known as the author of The Hebrew God: Portrait of an Ancient Deity (2002), Joseph in Egypt: A Cultural Icon from Grotius to Goethe (2009), and Sacred Games: A History of Christian Worship (2013), which were published by Yale University Press, as was Heaven: A History (2001), of which he was a co-author together with Colleen McDannell. Another work, Meeting in Heaven, was published by Peter Lang in 2011. [2] In conjunction with the Society for Old Testament Study (of which he is an Honorary Member) [3] a volume of his essays entitled Hebrew Life and Literature was published in 2008 by Ashgate Publishing and subsequently republished by Routledge. [4] He was formerly the editor of the International Review of Biblical Studies , and was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Theology by Aarhus University in 2008.
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