Amy-Jill Levine is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament

New Testament

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 Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School

Vanderbilt Divinity School

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, Department of Religious Studies, and Graduate Department of Religion.

Biography

Holding a B.A. from Smith College

Smith College

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, an M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University

Duke University

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, and an honorary Doctor of Ministry from the University of Richmond

University of Richmond

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, Levine has been awarded grants from the Mellon Foundation

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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, the National Endowment for the Humanities

National Endowment for the Humanities

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, and the American Council of Learned Societies

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.

She has held office in the Society of Biblical Literature

Society of Biblical Literature

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, 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

Sexism

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, and homophobic

Heterosexism

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 theologies. She is also an Orthodox Jew.

Selected publications

• Amy-Jill Levine, ed. (2001). A Feminist Companion to Mark. Includes Amy-Jill Levine, "Introduction," pp. 13-23. Continuum.
• ______, ed. (2002). A Feminist Companion to Luke. Includes Amy-Jill Levine, "Introduction," pp. 1-22. Continuum.
• _____, ed. (2003). A Feminist Companion to John, v. 2. Includes Amy-Jill Levine, "Introduction," pp. 1-13. Continuum.
• _____ (2006). The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, Harper-Collins. Description and chapter-preview links. Reviews in Interpretation & NYT.
• _____, Dale C. Allison, and John Dominic Crossan, ed. (2006). The Historical Jesus in Context, Princeton. Includes Amy-Jill Levine, "Introduction," pp. 1–39. Preview (including Bibliography) and text.
• Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Z. Brettler, editors, The Jewish Annotated New Testament, Oxford University Press, USA, (November 15, 2011), hardcover, 700 pages,
  • The Jewish Annotated New Testament, Oxford University Press, USA

External links

• Curriculum vitae (September 2010)