LEADING JEWISH SCHOLAR ON JUDAISM AND THE NEW TESTAMENT BACKGROUND IN BONDI THURSDAY 9th JULY
Amy-Jill Levine is a figure in wild demand on the international circuit for her work on the New Testament and the Jewish background. She as a practicing Jewish woman brings a unique perspective to this area of growing understanding.
She will speak at the Chapel by the Sea Uniting Church, Bondi Beach, Thursday 9th July from 7.30pm. Her topic will be ‘hearing Jesus with Jewish ears.'
The cost for the lecture will be $15 and $10 concession. Further details 9130-3445.
Keynote Speaker
Professor Amy-Jill Levine
Amy-Jill Levine is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion. Holding a
B.A. from Smith College, an M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University, and honorary Doctorates from the University of Richmond and the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest. Professor 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 (she is presently the New Testament book review editor for the Catholic Biblical Quarterly), and the Association for Jewish Studies. Her most recent books include The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus (HarperSanFrancisco), the edited collection, The Historical Jesus in Context (Princeton University) as well as the fourteen-volume series, Feminist Companions to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings (Continuum). She has recorded “Introduction to the Old Testament,” “Great Figures of the Old Testament,” and “Great Figures of the New Testament” for the Teaching Company. In 2008, she was invited to present a study in Rome on Jesus in his Jewish context to the annual Meeting of the Diocesan Delegates for Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue of the Italian Catholic Church.