Tag Archives: Amy-Jill Levine

Levine-unconscous anti-Semitism

Posted on July 24, 2013 by theoutwardquest

I finished reading The Misunderstood Jew by Amy-Jill Levine. From childhood, Levine had a charitable and open attitude toward Christianity.  I think I mentioned that as a small child she wanted to become Pope when she grew up.  This, I … Continue reading →

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Levine-parallel tracks

Posted on July 22, 2013 by theoutwardquest

Amy-Jill Levine on page 210 of The Misunderstood Jew quotes Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger from a 2000 (before he was Pope) official Vatican document.  He said, “The faith witnessed to by the Jewish Bible (the Old Testament for Christians) is not … Continue reading →

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Levine-the most controversial part

Posted on July 18, 2013 by theoutwardquest

I know someone who read Amy-Jill Levine’s The Misunderstood Jew last year.  At least he read some of it.  At some point he had a negative reaction and started telling others not to read the book. Now I have probably … Continue reading →

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Levine-seven stereotypes

Posted on July 16, 2013 by theoutwardquest

In a chapter of The Misunderstood Jew on stereotypes of Jews promoted in Christian seminaries and pulpits, Amy-Jill Levine lists seven stereotypes: First, is the idea that the Torah is a legalistic yoke too hard to bear.  This she says … Continue reading →

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Levine-names for the Bible

Posted on July 15, 2013 by theoutwardquest

Amy-Jill Levine objects to Christians changing the  name of the Old Testament to the Hebrew Scriptures.  She does this partly because she says not all those scriptures were written in Hebrew. This seems minor to me.  When Protestants speak of the … Continue reading →

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Levine-the anti-Jewish aspect of the New Testament

Posted on July 12, 2013 by theoutwardquest

Is the New Testament anti-Semitic? No, says Amy-Jill Levine in The Misunderstood Jew.  But parts of it seem anti-Jewish. She deals with particular passages.  The passage in John 14 where Jesus says that no one comes to the Father except … Continue reading →

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Levine-Romans and Paul’s lovely solution

Posted on July 9, 2013 by theoutwardquest

Amy-Jill Levine gives a much more positive evaluation of Paul’s way of dealing with the Jewish connection of Christianity in his letter to the Romans.  She did not like his treatment of the problem in Galatians.  But in Romans 9-11 … Continue reading →

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Levine-reading the New Testament while Jewish

Posted on July 8, 2013 by theoutwardquest

Amy- Jill Levine in The Misunderstood Jew talks about how Christianity developed within and along side Judaism during the first decades after Jesus. She deals with Peter, James and Paul as pivotal figures.  Peter represented a two-track approach.  He had … Continue reading →

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Levine-like a Jew

Posted on July 2, 2013 by theoutwardquest

One of Amy-Jill Levine’s concerns in The Misunderstood Jew is that, although more and more Christians know that Jesus was Jewish, we underestimate the extent that he was an observant Jew. Many of us have known non-observant Jews, Jews who … Continue reading →

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Levine-she did not

Posted on July 1, 2013 by theoutwardquest

  Amy-Jill Levine is Jewish.  She grew up in a Catholic neighborhood with both an admiration for the church (she wanted to grow up and become Pope) and a reaction to some antisemitism she encountered.  This gave her an abiding interest … Continue reading →

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