Entering the Passion of Jesus, AmyJill Levine
Entering the Passion of Jesus, AmyJill Levine
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Entering the Passion of Jesus
A Beginner's Guide to Holy Week

Author: Amy-Jill Levine

Narrator: Nan McNamara

Unabridged: 4 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/05/2021

Synopsis

Jesus's final days were full of risk. Every move he made was filled with anticipation, danger, and the potential for great loss or great reward.

Jesus risked his reputation when he entered Jerusalem in a victory parade. He risked his life when he dared to teach in the Temple. His followers risked everything when they left behind their homes, or anointed him with costly perfume. We take risks as we read and re-read these stories, finding new meanings and new challenges.

In Entering the Passion of Jesus: A Beginner's Guide to Holy Week, author, professor, and biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine explores the biblical texts surrounding the Passion story. She shows us how the text raises ethical and spiritual questions for the reader, and how we all face risk in our Christian experience.

Entering the Passion of Jesus provides a rich and challenging learning experience for small groups and individual listeners alike.

About Amy-Jill Levine

Amy-Jill Levine ("AJ") is Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at the Hartford International University for Religion and Peace and University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies Emerita, Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies Emerita, and Professor of New Testament Studies Emerita at Vanderbilt University. An internationally renowned scholar and teacher, she is the author of numerous books, including The Difficult Words of Jesus: A Beginner's Guide to His Most Perplexing Teachings, Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi, Entering the Passion of Jesus: A Beginner's Guide to Holy Week, Light of the World: A Beginner's Guide to Advent, Sermon on the Mount: A Beginner's Guide to the Kingdom of Heaven, and Signs and Wonders: A Beginner's Guide to the Miracles of Jesus. She is also coeditor of the Jewish Annotated New Testament. AJ is the first Jew to teach New Testament at Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute. In 2021 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. AJ describes herself as an unorthodox member of an Orthodox synagogue and a Yankee Jewish feminist who until 2021 taught New Testament in a Christian divinity school in the buckle of the Bible Belt.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cathryn on April 02, 2021

Don't let the subtitle of this incredibly perceptive book mislead you. I am no beginner to Holy Week, but I still learned SO much. This is a short book that sparkles like a rare gemstone. After reading it, I will forever read the Passion stories in the four Gospels in a whole new, more enlightened w......more

Goodreads review by conor on April 16, 2020

I love Amy-Jill Levine's work and approach to Jesus and the New Testament. Her scholarship and 'outsider' status give her a perspective that's refreshing and insightful. Lots of great nuggets packed in here and provocative questions posed. I expected something a little different for the "guide to Ho......more

Goodreads review by M. on April 07, 2022

Amy Jill Levine is a Jewish New Testament scholar, a teacher of Brant Pitre. This beginner guide highlights the difference between the four gospels at least leading up to the arrest of Jesus. Her reading is typological and her general vision respectful of Christian beliefs, in fact its the framework......more

Goodreads review by Laura on April 11, 2022

Very engaging and well organized Lenten study on the events of Holy Week. AJ Levine is a brilliant scholar who shines new light on these familiar Gospel stories. Paired with weekly video clips and leaders guide. Recommend for other churches looking for a Lenten weekly study.......more

Goodreads review by JC on April 03, 2021

I read Levine’s Advent primer this past Advent, and having found it rather useful, decided to go through this Holy Week book the past few days. As a Jewish feminist, Levine approaches the ‘New Testament’ texts with insights and preoccupations that are not as common to many other ‘New Testament’ scho......more

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