The Misunderstood Jew: by Amy-Jill Levine

Author: Amy-Jill Levine

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Mixing rigorous scholarship with helpings of both wit and pastoral care, Amy-Jill Levine reveals Jesus as The Misunderstood Jew. Levine shows how Christians often misunderstand Judaism in general, misunderstand the New Testament in particular, and thus yank Jesus out of his Jewish context—resulting in intolerance (and sometimes outright hatred) of Jews. She doesn't let Jews off the hook either, cutting through willful ignorance of Jesus and his message. A Jewish scholar who teaches in a primarily Protestant divinity school in Nashville, Tennessee—the buckle of the Bible Belt—Levine offers a unique, deeper understanding of who Jesus was and what he taught.

There's no getting around the fact that Christianity started as a Jewish movement before spreading to the Gentiles of the Mediterranean. Levine helps readers understand the culture in which Jesus grew up and that he celebrated—the diet and dress of first-century Palestine, Jewish holidays and customs, the numerous public roles of Jewish women, and the rituals of the Temple. All those head-scratching sayings and acts of Jesus's that have befuddled Bible readers for generations suddenly make sense in light of his Jewish heritage.

Levine also takes an unflinching look at modern anti-Jewish readings of the New Testament, including the stereotyping of Judaism as legalistic, purity-obsessed, Temple-dominated, xenophobic, violent, greedy, and misogynist. She shows how Christian theologians often make Judaism look backward and antiquated so that Christianity can, in contrast, look progressive and superior.

Levine's candor will prompt much-needed conversation and debate about how Christians and Jews should understand Jesus, the Gospels, and the New Testament.

Publisher: HarperOne

Binding: Paperback
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
Physical Info: 0.61" H x 8.25" L x 5.48" W (0.42 lbs) 250 pages
Carton Quantity: 40
US SRP: $ 13.95 US
Pub Date: December 2007

Binding: Hardcover
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
Initial Print Run: 25000
Physical Info: 0.91" H x 9.28" L x 6.32" W (0.96 lbs) 250 pages
Carton Quantity: 36
US SRP: $ 24.95 US
Pub Date: December 2006

Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity | History - Social Issues
- Religion | Christian Theology | Christology
- Religion | Judaism | History
LC Subjects:
- Christianity - Christianity and other religions
- Jesus Christ - Jews in the New Testament
- Judaism - Judaism (Christian theology)
- Relations
Themes:
Religious Orientation | Christian
Religious Orientation | Jewish
Dewey: 261.26
LCCN: 2006049518
Amy-Jill Levine is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School in Nashville, Tennessee. Levine has been awarded grants from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Along with publishing commentaries on several books of the Bible, she has recorded the "Introduction to the Old Testament," "Great Figures of the Old Testament," and "Great Figures of the New Testament" for the Teaching Company's Great Lecture series.

The Misunderstood Jew: by Amy-Jill Levine Author: Amy-Jill Levine
	Item#	Binding	isbn - 10	Price
	9780061137785	Paperback	0061137782	10.95
	9780060789664	Hardcover	0060789662	16.95
The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus: Mixing rigorous scholarship with helpings of both wit and pastoral care, Amy-Jill Levine reveals Jesus as The Misunderstood Jew.

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