Amy-Jill Levine
Levine in 2023
Born	1956 (age 68–69)
Nationality	American
Other names	A. J. Levine
Spouse	Jay Geller[1]
Academic background
Alma mater	Smith College Duke University
Thesis	The Matthean Program of Salvation History (1984)
Doctoral advisor	D. Moody Smith
Academic work
Discipline	Biblical studies
School or tradition	Feminism
Institutions	Swarthmore College Vanderbilt University
Notable works	The Misunderstood Jew (2006) Short Stories by Jesus (2014)

Amy-Jill Levine (born 1956) is Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies atHartford International University for Religion and Peace. She works inbiblical studies and is a self described "critic of antisemitic, sexist, and homophobic theologies".^[2]

Amy-Jill Levine was born in 1956. Raised in a predominantly Catholic neighborhood in Massachusetts, she grew up with an appreciation for many aspects of the Christian tradition, though she was raised in a Jewish home.^[3] She completed her undergraduate work atSmith College, where she graduatedPhi Beta Kappa and held honors in both religion and English.^[4] She earned her doctorate atDuke University.^[4]

She has held office in theSociety of Biblical Literature, theCatholic Biblical Association, and theAssociation for Jewish Studies.

Her publications includeThe 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 14-volumeFeminist 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 eliminatingantisemitic,sexist, andhomophobic theologies."^[5] She is a member of theOrthodox Jewish synagogueSherith Israel,^[6] though she herself does not observekashrut orShabbat according to Orthodox Jewish norms.^[7] Levine has produced lectures on theOld Testament and "Great Figures of theNew Testament" forThe Teaching Company.^[8]

Per the introduction by Levine forTheHistorical Jesus in Context:

There is a consensus of sorts on a basic outline of Jesus' life. Most scholars agree that Jesus was baptized by John, debated with fellow Jews on how best to live according to God's will, engaged in healings and exorcisms, taught inparables, gathered male and female followers in Galilee, went to Jerusalem, and was crucified by Roman soldiers during the governorship ofPontius Pilate (26–36 CE). But, to use the old cliché, the devil is in the details.^[9]

• Levine, Amy-Jill; Blickenstaff, Marianne, eds. (2001).A Feminist Companion to Matthew. Feminist companion to the New Testament and early Christian writings. Vol. 1. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.ISBN 978-1-841-27211-5.OCLC 47867557.
• ———; Blickenstaff, Marianne, eds. (2001).A Feminist Companion to Mark. Feminist companion to the New Testament and early Christian writings. Vol. 2. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.ISBN 978-1-841-27194-1.OCLC 49864189.^[10]
• ———; Blickenstaff, Marianne, eds. (2002).A Feminist Companion to Luke. Feminist companion to the New Testament and early Christian writings. Vol. 3. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.ISBN 978-1-841-27174-3.OCLC 50616758.^[11]
• ———; Blickenstaff, Marianne, eds. (2002).A Feminist Companion to John Volume 1. Feminist companion to the New Testament and early Christian writings. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
• ———; Blickenstaff, Marianne, eds. (2002).A Feminist Companion to John Volume 2. Feminist companion to the New Testament and early Christian writings. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.^[12]
• ——— (2006).The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus. San Francisco, CA: Harper-Collins.ISBN 978-0-060-78966-4.OCLC 70199942.^[13]
• ———;Allison, Dale C.;Crossan, John Dominic, eds. (2006).The Historical Jesus in Context. Princeton Readings in Religions. Princeton.ISBN 978-0-691-00992-6.^[14]
• ———;Brettler, Marc Zvi, eds. (2011).The Jewish Annotated New Testament. Oxford University Press, USA.ISBN 978-0195297706.^[15]
• Levine, Amy-Jill; Brettler, Marc Zvi (2020).The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently. HarperOne.ISBN 9780062560155.OCLC 1137745257.
• ———; Sievers, Joseph, eds. (2021).The Pharisees. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.ISBN 978-0-8028-7929-5.OCLC 1237694143.
• ——— (2014).Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi. HarperOne.ISBN 978-0-061-56103-0.^[16]

• https://outreach.faith/2022/09/amy-jill-levine-how-to-read-the-bibles-clobber-passages-on-homosexuality/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20220912160710/https://outreach.faith/2022/09/amy-jill-levine-how-to-read-the-bibles-clobber-passages-on-homosexuality/

• Curriculum vitae (May 2011)Archived 2012-10-31 at theWayback Machine
• Reviews of The Misunderstood Jew inInterpretation &NYT.

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