Ruth Lapide

Who is Ruth Lapide?

Ruth Lapide, Franconia, Germany, is a Jewish theologian and historian who is foremost among German language scholars that endeavor to facilitate and improve understanding between Jews and Christians, to a degree also with Muslims. An important part of her work deals with biblical mistranslations and with the Jewish roots of Christianity. She worked in this endeavor with her husband Pinchas Lapide until his death in 1997, after which she began a writing career while teaching at the Evangelischen Fachhochschule in Nuremberg. She is widely known from numerous television interviews about biblical topics broadcast by Bavarian Broadcasting and Bibel TV.