“Her approach to Jewish-Christian scholarship is not to challenge Catholic doctrines, she said, but to examine the historical and human setting in which Christianity emerged.

Amy-Jill Levine ›

Jewish professor

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“a guest in this house

Amy-Jill Levine ›

Jewish professor

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“I would like to get this better material into the hands of people who are speaking to people in the pews, into the hands of people in parochial schools who are teaching biblical studies to teenagers or to little kids, and mainstream it. It hasn’t been done.

Amy-Jill Levine ›

Jewish professor

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“many clergy members continue to rely on commentaries acquired during their seminary education decades ago rather than newer research on the Jewish contexts of Jesus, the Pharisees and the Gospels

Amy-Jill Levine ›

Jewish professor

Reported