The Misunderstood Jew, AmyJill Levine
The Misunderstood Jew, AmyJill Levine
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The Misunderstood Jew
The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus

Author: Amy-Jill Levine

Narrator: Donna Postel

Unabridged: 11 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/21/2017

Synopsis

In The Misunderstood Jew, scholar Amy-Jill Levine helps Christians and Jews understand the "Jewishness" of Jesus so that their appreciation of him deepens and a greater interfaith dialogue can take place. Levine's humor and informed truth-telling provokes honest conversation and debate about how Christians and Jews should understand Jesus, the New Testament, and each other.

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 Mara

I was here for the shade at Christian theological education throughout this (though not sure if those not inside baseball would care about some of those elements?), but beyond that, this really made me rethink many of the things I was taught when I was an evangelical about that Jesus' Jewish identit......more

Goodreads review by Sleepless

This book is fantastic. I spent a lot of time with Christians throughout this year. It left me with a lot of complicated feelings. With a lot of scholarly and theological knowledge as well as practical experience, Levine managed to untangle some of them. On the one hand, I was deeply impressed by Ch......more

Goodreads review by Dennis

Amy-Jill Levine is an Orthodox Jewish woman who teaches New Testament Studies at a Christian college. She is well positioned to speak to people in both religious camps. I was not surprised to hear that Jesus and his followers were Jews all their lives, nor that a lot of the anti-Jewish thinking and......more

Goodreads review by Lee

What started out as a light-hearted look at the Jewish Jesus quickly turned somber. This is a serious look at the pain that anti-Semitic interpretations of the Bible have caused and continue to cause. Levine, a Jew, has an excellent grasp of New Testament studies, so this is more than a rant against......more

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