How Jews and Christians Read the Scriptures Differently: Council of Christians and Jews (CCV)

Council of Christians and Jews  (Victoria) presents:

Professor Amy-Jill Levine on How Jews and Christians Read the Scriptures Differently

Amy-Jill Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, and Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and College of Arts and Sciences.  Holding the B.A. from Smith College, the M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University, and honorary doctorates from Christian Theological Seminary, Drury University, the University of Richmond, the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, and the University of South Carolina-Upstate, she has held office in the Society of Biblical Literature, the Catholic Biblical Association, and the Association for Jewish Studies.  Her books include The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus the edited collection, The Historical Jesus in Context (Princeton), and the fourteen-volume edited series, Feminist Companions to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings, She has co-edited the Jewish Annotated New Testament and she has co-written The Meaning of the Bible: What The Jewish Scriptures and the Christian Old Testament Can Teach us.  Professor Levine became Affiliated Professor at the Woolf Institute: Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations at Cambridge, UK.  A self-described "Yankee Jewish feminist who teaches in a predominantly Christian divinity school in the buckle of the Bible Belt," Professor Levine combines historical-critical rigor, literary-critical sensitivity, and a frequent dash of humour with a commitment to eliminating anti-Jewish, sexist, and homophobic theologies.

Date & Time: Wednesday 29th May 7.30pm

Location: Genezzano College, Cotham Road Kew, Furlan Room in Madeleine Centre

Entrance $10.00  Bookings essential.

We cordially invite you to attend and please book at the CCJ office Tel 9429 5212  or email ccjvic@bigpond.net.au