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The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus
by: Amy-jill Levine

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 261.26
EAN: 9780061137785
ISBN: 0061137782
Label: HarperOne
Manufacturer: HarperOne
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: December 01, 2007
Publisher: HarperOne
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Sales Rank: 30949
Studio: HarperOne

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In the The Misunderstood Jew, scholar Amy-Jill Levine helps Christians and Jews understand the 'Jewishness' of Jesus so that their appreciation of him deepens and a greater interfaith dialogue can take place. Levine's humor and informed truth-telling provokes honest conversation and debate about how Christians and Jews should understand Jesus, the New Testament, and each other.

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- Read this book
If you love Jesus, you should read this book. If you keep these type of books around to refer to them, buy this book. Otherwise, borrow it from the library or share the cost with friends. It does have some helpful information, but is not comprehensive in telling us about first century Judaism. It is more helpful than not, so it gets three stars.

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- Must reading for any thoughtful Christian - or Jew
Prof. Amy-Jill Levine is a Jewish woman who attends an orthodox synagogue in Nashville and who occupies an endowed chair of New Testament studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School. If you make a habit of watching the various Jesus TV shows that appear around Christmastime and Easter, you've probably seen her on camera. A-J, as her students call her (I was her student for my M.Div., and still consider myself such) is an engaging lecturer with an appealing sense of humor and a simply awesome command of the various themes, facts and passages of the New Testament. And she treats the New Testament a lot better than many Christian professors, clergy and laity treat the Old Testament.

Which brings me to her latest book, The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus. It is precisely, I think, because of A-J's deep appreciation of Jesus as a specifically Jewish man, and the plainly Jewish ... Read More

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- Jesus is Jewish!
This is the best book available today about the Jewishness of Jesus. Amy Jill Levine points out that many of the Gospel stories would hit home with more of us if we read the New Testament with the eyes of a first century Jewish person. She points out the Jewishness of each line of the Lord's Prayer and its similarities with the Mourner's Kaddish in Judaism. She also shows that the parable of the Good Samaritan will be more powerful when we realize that the role model of the story is the enemy of the Jews.

Similarly, the parable of the tax collector and the self-righteous Pharisee praying in the temple has a bigger punch when we remember how despised tax collectors were and how unlikely it would seem that a sinful, self-centered tax collector would repent and turn to the Jewish God.

There is also an important chapter about anti-Judaism in the New Testament. Levine feels that the issue of ... Read More

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- Towards Mutual Understanding
This is a first-rate publication that takes the reader into the Jewishness of Jesus in a vivid manner while sensitive to Jewish-Christian differences. The book is both scholarly as well as pastoral for it seeks to establish common links and points of commonality between the religions. A must-read for anyone interested in Christian-Jewish dialogue today....and for understanding the outlook of much of the New Testament.

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