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Amy-Jill Levine

Amy-Jill Levine is professor of New Testament and Jewish studies at Hartford International University. Her latest book is the forthcoming Jesus for Everyone: Not Just Christians.

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Amy-Jill Levine
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What should churches do about the treatment of “the Jews” in John?

“Each of the typical approaches has problems. The best solution would be to change the lectionary.”
Amy-Jill Levine
Interviews

Knowing and preaching the Jewish Jesus

“If to get a good message you need to make Judaism look bad, then you don’t have a good message.”
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What the Prodigal Son story doesn't mean

The Prodigal Son is often read to mean that God loves sinners, whereas the Jews thought God only loved the righteous. This makes no sense.
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Habits of anti-Judaism: Critiquing a PCUSA report on Israel/Palestine

Old habits die hard. Despite numerous attempts by mainline Protestant denominations to promote historically informed studies of Judaism, repudiate supersessionist theologies and engage in conversations wth Jews, the old habit of bearing false witness against Jewish neighbors lives on. In recent years this practice has thrived especially in mainline Protestant statements on the Middle East.
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Misusing Jesus: How the church divorces Jesus from Judaism

The fact that Jesus was a Jew has not gone unrecognized....

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