Amy-Jill Levine

Amy-Jill Levine is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, Department of Religious Studies, and Graduate Department of Religion.

Biography

Holding a B.A. from Smith College, an M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University, and an honorary Doctor of Ministry from the University of Richmond, Levine has been awarded grants from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies.

She has held office in the Society of Biblical Literature, the Catholic Biblical Association, and the Association for Jewish Studies.

Her most recent publications include The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus (HarperSanFrancisco, 2006), the edited collection, The Historical Jesus in Context (Princeton University Press, 2006) and the fourteen-volume Feminist Companions to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings (Continuum).

A self-described "Yankee Jewish feminist who teaches in a predominantly Protestant divinity school in the buckle of the Bible Belt," Levine combines historical-critical rigor, literary-critical sensitivity, and a frequent dash of humor with a commitment to eliminating antisemitic, sexist, and homophobic theologies.^[1] She is also an Orthodox Jew.^[2]

Selected publications

• Amy-Jill Levine, ed. (2001). A Feminist Companion to Mark. Includes Amy-Jill Levine, "Introduction," pp. 13-23. Continuum.
• ______, ed. (2002). A Feminist Companion to Luke. Includes Amy-Jill Levine, "Introduction," pp. 1-22. Continuum.
• _____, ed. (2003). A Feminist Companion to John, v. 2. Includes Amy-Jill Levine, "Introduction," pp. 1-13. Continuum.
• _____ (2006). The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, Harper-Collins. Description and chapter-preview links. Reviews in Interpretation & NYT.
• _____, Dale C. Allison, and John Dominic Crossan, ed. (2006). The Historical Jesus in Context, Princeton. Includes Amy-Jill Levine, "Introduction," pp. 1–39. Preview (including Bibliography) and text.
• Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Z. Brettler, editors, The Jewish Annotated New Testament, Oxford University Press, USA, (November 15, 2011), hardcover, 700 pages, ISBN-10: 0195297709 ISBN-13: 978-0195297706
  • The Jewish Annotated New Testament, Oxford University Press, USA

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External links

• Curriculum vitae (September 2010)