Langton was home-schooled before studying history for his BA (hons) 1991-94 and PhD 1994-98 at the Parkes Centre for the Study of Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton.
Langton has taught at the University of Manchester,in the department of religions and theology,since 2001. He is codirector of the Centre for Jewish Studies and coeditor of the journal Melilah. He was an AHRC leadership gellow for 2016-17 with a project entitled the Doubting Jew and Leverhulme Major Research Fellow 2013-15 with a project entitled Darwin's Jews. He was a recipient of the University of Manchester Teaching Excellence Prize in 2006. He was president 2014-15 and secretary 2002-10 of the British Association for Jewish Studies,and secretary 2010-14 of the European Association for Jewish Studies.
Reform Judaism and Darwin:How Engaging with Evolutionary Theory Shaped American Jewish Religion(2019),which is a survey of Reform Jewish engagement with evolutionary theory
The Apostle Paul in the Jewish Imagination:A Study in Modern Jewish Christian Relations (2010),which is a survey of Jewish views of Paul.
Claude Montefiore:His Life and Thought] (2002),which is an intellectual biography of Claude Montefiore.
Edited books
Atheism,Scepticism and Challenges to Monotheism (2015),which presents a variety of scholarship on atheism and scepticism in Jewish contexts.
Normative Judaism? Jews,Judaism and Jewish Identity (2012),co-edited with Philip Alexander,which reflects modern scholarly debate about the nature of Judaism.
Writing the Holocaust (2011),co-edited with Jean-Marc Dreyfus,which treats a range of topics including Holocaust Theology.
Educational works
Jews and Christians Perspectives on Mission (2011),with Reuven Silverman and Patrick Morrow,which is a contribution to Interfaith dialogue.
Children of Zion:Jewish and Christian Perspectives on the Holy Land (2008),which is a contribution to Interfaith dialogue.
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