This week we have a lively conversation with Amy-Jill Levine, who is a distinguished scholar of the New Testament and Jewish Studies (and who is Jewish herself), about Jesus and the New Testament in the light of how he would be understood in the Jewish context of the first century–as well as what Jesus has to offer to the world now, even to people who are not Christian (or even religious at all). This conversation offers some eye-opening perspectives on the deeper meanings of the parables of Jesus, how the teachings of Jesus are based in the Torah rather than diverging from it, and how misreadings of the Bible have led to historic antisemitism–but that a closer reading of the Bible can lead to dialogue and even coexistence of different faiths.

Amy-Jill Levine is the author of countless books, including the upcoming “Jesus for Everyone: Not Just Christians.” She is Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace and University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies Emerita and Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies Emerita, at Vanderbilt.

Find out more about her at her FB page (link below) and find her books wherever books are sold.

#christianity #judaism #jesus #deconstruction #interreligious #spirituality

Amy-Jill Levine
https://www.facebook.com/AmyJillLevine
https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Atheists-Still-Matters-Secular/dp/0062216724

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