Amy-Jill Levine
- Amy-Jill Levine
Amy-Jill Levine is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, Department of Religious Studies, and Graduate Department of Religion.
Holding a B.A. from
Smith College , an M.A. and Ph.D. fromDuke University , and an honorary Doctor of Ministry from theUniversity of Richmond , Levine has been awarded grants from the Mellon Foundation, theNational Endowment for the Humanities , and theAmerican Council of Learned Societies .She has held office in the
Society of Biblical Literature , the Catholic Biblical Association, and the Association for Jewish Studies.Her most recent publications include "The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus" (HarperSanFrancisco, 2006), the edited collection, "The Historical Jesus in Context" (Princeton University Press, 2006) and the fourteen-volume "Feminist Companions to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings" (Continuum).
A self-described "Yankee Jewish feminist who teaches in a predominantly Protestant divinity school in the buckle of the Bible Belt," Levine combines historical-critical rigor, literary-critical sensitivity, and a frequent dash of humor with a commitment to eliminating antisemitic, sexist, and homophobic theologies. [cite web |url=http://www.vanderbilt.edu/gradschool/religion/faculty/facultypages/levine.html |title= Biography at Vanderbilt University website]
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* [http://www.vanderbilt.edu/gradschool/religion/downloads/cv/Vitae.Levine.November.2007.pdf Curriculum vitae]
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