Amy-Jill Levine

Amy-Jill Levine

Amy-Jill Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies, and Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School and College of Arts and Science in Nashville, TN; she also Affiliated Professor, Woolf Institute, Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge UK and in spring, 2019, teaching at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.


Model of the Second Temple in Jerusalem during the time of Herod. The Israel Museum

Is the New Testament Anti-Jewish?

Scholars debate whether the New Testament is anti-Jewish: what are the verses under discussion, and what are the arguments for both regarding the New Testament as anti-Jewish and for denying that this is the case?

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What is the Difference between the Old Testament, the Tanakh, and the Hebrew Bible?

The (Protestant) Old Testament and the (Jewish) Tanakh share the same books, but our readings differ in language, punctuation, canonical order, and emphases.

Amy-Jill Levine
Amy-Jill Levine
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