Education
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
She is widely known from numerous television interviews about biblical topics broadcast by Bavarian Broadcasting and Bibel television Ruth Lapide studied political science, history and Judaic studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In this she and her Austrian-born husband worked as partners until his death. Ruth Lapide has been living in Frankfurt am Main since the mid-1970s.
In 2000, Ruth Lapide was awarded Germany’s most prestigious medal, the Bundesverdienstkreuz, and on April 11, 2003, she received the Hessischen Verdienstorden am Bande, the most prestigious medal of the German state of Hesse. In 2007 she received an honorary professorate and in 2008 received an honorary doctorate at the Protestant Augustana-Hochschule in Neuendettelsau, Central Franconia, Bavaria.