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Dan Mark Cohn-Sherbok is a
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of
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and a Jewish theologian. He is Professor Emeritus of
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at the
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.


Biography

Born 1945https://dcnetwork.org/story/thoughts-rabbi-dan-cohn-sherbok-donor-conceived-person in
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,
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, he graduated from
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and was a student at
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,
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, spending a junior year abroad in Athens, Greece. He was ordained a Reform rabbi at the
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at
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. He was a Chaplain of the Colorado House of Representative, and Honorary Colonel Aide-de-Camp of New Mexico. He has served as a rabbi in the United States, England, Australia and South Africa. He was a student at
Wolfson College, Cambridge Wolfson College () is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The majority of students at the college are postgraduates. The college also admits "mature" undergraduates (aged 21 and above), with around ...
. He received a doctorate in philosophy from the
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in
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. Later, he received an honorary doctorate in divinity from the
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,
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. He taught theology at the
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and served as director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Society, and was Professor of Judaism at the
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. He has served as visiting professor at
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,
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, St. Andrews University,
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, University of Vilnius, Lithuania,
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,
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,
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,
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, St Andrews Biblical Theological College, Moscow and Honorary Professor at
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. He has been a visiting fellow at
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, and
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, a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Corresponding Fellow of the
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, a visiting research fellow of
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, a Life Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge, an Honorary Senior Member of Darwin College, University of Kent, an Associate Member of the SCR
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, a Member of the SCR
Harris Manchester College, Oxford Harris Manchester College (HMC) is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It was founded in Warrington in 1757 as a college for Unitarianism, Unitarian students and moved to ...
, President of the London Society for the Study of Religion and Member of the Arts and Humanities Peer Review College. He has also served as a visiting scholar of
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, the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies and
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. He was a finalist of the Times Preacher of the Year, and winner of the Royal Academy Friends design competition. He is a member of the Oxford and Cambridge Club and the Athenaeum. He is married to Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok.


Works

Cohn-Sherbok is the author and editor of over 100 books which have been translated into Russian, Greek, Bulgarian, Hebrew, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Japanese, Romanian, Turkish, Persian and German. He has also illustrated 25 books with cartoons and has contributed cartoons to books and magazines. His books include: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *———- (2019) Cohn-Sherbok, Lewis, Christopher, ''Interfaith Worship and Prayer'', JKP. ISBN 978-1-78592-120-9. *———-(2020) Cohn-Sherbok, Dan, Cardozo Kindersley, Lida, ''The Alphabetician and the Rabbi'', Cardozo Kindersley. *———-(2020) Cohn-Sherbok, Cave, Peter, ''Arguing About Judaism, Routledge''. ISBN 978-0-367-33406-2 *———- (2020) Cohn-Sherbok, Grant, Kevin, ''The Animal Orchestra'', Words. ISBN 978-0-9529352-3-0. *———- (2021) Cohn-Sherbok, Dan, ''Jews and Jokes,'' Impress Books *———- (2022) Cohn-Sherbok, Dan, Antisemitism, The History Press *————(2023) Cohn-Sherbok, Dan, Chryssides, George (eds), The Covid Pandemic and the World's Religions, Bloomsbury *———— (2024) Cohn-Sherbok, Dan, Oxford and Cambridge Club Jigsaws, ISSUU *————-(2024) Cohn-Sherbok, Dan, The Athenaeum, ISSUU *————(2024) Cohn-Sherbok, Dan, Grant, Kevin, Bible Jigsaws, ISSUU *————(2024) Cohn-Sherbok, Dan, Jew Hatred, ISSUU *————(2024) Cohn-Sherbok, Dan, Defining Antisemitism, ISSUU *————(2024), Cohn-Sherbok, Dan, The Bible and the Holy Land, ISSUU


See also

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Carol Harris-Shapiro Carol Harris-Shapiro is a lecturer at Temple University in the Intellectual Heritage Department. She has written a controversial book on Messianic Judaism, a belief system considered by most Christians and Jews to be a form of Christianity, adhere ...
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Academic study of new religious movements The academic study of new religious movements is known as new religions studies (NRS). The study draws from the disciplines of anthropology, psychiatry, history, psychology, sociology, religious studies, and theology. Eileen Barker noted that t ...


Footnotes


References

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"Review of Dan Cohn-Sherbok’s "The Politics of Apocalypse" "
8 January 2008, Calvin L. Smith.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cohn-Sherbok, Dan Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion alumni Living people 1945 births British Reform rabbis Researchers of new religious movements and cults Scholars of Mandaeism Alumni of Wolfson College, Cambridge Fellows of Wolfson College, Cambridge Academics of the University of Wales, Lampeter Williams College alumni Academics of Durham University Academics of the University of Essex Academics of Middlesex University Fellows of the Royal Asiatic Society East High School (Denver, Colorado) alumni