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Article: Studying Jesus made author a better Jew, she says
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- January 21, 2007
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Amy-Jill Levine sounds like a fish out of water, a self-described
"Yankee Jewish feminist" from suburban Boston who is a New Testament
professor at Vanderbilt University Divinity School in Nashville,
Tenn.
But Levine, author of "The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the
Scandal of the Jewish Jesus," is used to crossing boundaries and
helping people understand each other's - and their own - religious
traditions.
She spoke by phone about how studying Jesus has made her a better
Jew, and why the historical Jesus matters to contemporary Christians.
Here are excerpts.
Q: What is the "the Jewish Jesus"?
A: Both Jews and Christians fail to appreciate how Jesus would
have sounded in his own ...