Wednesday, October 27, 2010

The Misunderstood Jew ... comments ...

Amy-Jill Levine is the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter professor of the New Testament at Vanderbilt University Divinity School in Nashville, Tennessee. I have just finished her book about Jesus entitled The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus.

As just one example, it was very helpful to hear her view of Jesus' parable of the Pharisee and tax collector that is in Luke 18:9-14 as I was preparing to preach from that parable.

Honestly, she gives a view of Jesus that makes your eyebrow raise, but then did not Jesus do that as well?