8th Annual Major Speaker--Dr. Amy-Jill Levine

8TH ANNUAL MAJOR SPEAKER

DR. AMY-JILL LEVINE

AGREEING TO DISAGREE:  HOW JEWS AND CHRISTIANS READ THE SAME TEXTS DIFFERENTLY

Although Jews and Christians share common books--the Jewish Tanakh and the Christian Old Testament--we are not quite reading the same texts, for we have differences in translation, punctuation, definitions, theology, emphasis and even canonical order.  What prompts these differences, how can we learn to see through each other's lenses, and what might such new vision suggest about Jewish and Christian identity?

Dr. Levine will be on Zoom.  We will gather in Mercy Hall, or you may watch from home.  

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$25 per person

"AJ' is Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Hartford Seminary and University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies Emerita as well as Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies Emerita at Vanderbilt.  Her books include The Misunderstoon Jew:  The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus; four children's books (with Sandy Sasso); The Gospel of Luke (with Ben Witherington III); and The Jewish Annotated New Testament (co-edited with Marc Brettler).  In 2020 she published The Bible With and Without Jesus:  How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently (with Marc Brettler); and the Sermon on the Mount:  A Beginner's Guide to the Kingdom of Heaven.  She is the first Jew to teach New Testament at Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute.

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