Jesus the Jewish Storyteller: Of Pearls and Prodigals / AJ Levine

AJ Levine is Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Prof. of NT and Jewish Studies, Hartford International University for Religion and Peace; University Prof. of NT and Jewish Studies/Mary Jane Werthan Prof. of Jewish Studies Emerita, Vanderbilt. Books include The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus; Short Stories by Jesus; 6 children’s books (w/ S. Sasso); Gospel of Luke (w/ B. Witherington III); The Jewish Annotated New Testament and The Bible With and Without Jesus (w/ M. Brettler), The Pharisees (w/ J. Sievers), 13 Feminist Companions to the New Testament, and 7 Beginner’s Guides. First Jew to teach New Testament at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, member: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, recipient of the Seelisberg Prize for Jewish-Christian Relations and the H. Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation from Archbishop of Canterbury, AJ, an unorthodox member of an Orthodox synagogue, works to counter harmful exegesis.