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by: Amy-jill Levine See Larger Image List Price: $13.95 Our Price: $11.16 You Save: $2.79 (20%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $5.98 Third Party New Price: $6.25 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 261.26 EAN: 9780061137785 ISBN: 0061137782 Label: HarperOne Manufacturer: HarperOne Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: December 01, 2007 Publisher: HarperOne Release Date: November 20, 2007 Sales Rank: 3265 Studio: HarperOne Related Items: The Historical Jesus in Context (Princeton Readings in Religions) Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth Jesus in the Talmud see more Editorial Review: Product Description: In the The Misunderstood Jew, scholar Amy-Jill Levine helps Christians and Jews understand the 'Jewishness' of Jesus so that their appreciation of him deepens and a greater interfaith dialogue can take place. Levine's humor and informed truth-telling provokes honest conversation and debate about how Christians and Jews should understand Jesus, the New Testament, and each other. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Read this book If you love Jesus, you should read this book. If you keep these type of books around to refer to them, buy this book. Otherwise, borrow it from the library or share the cost with friends. It does have some helpful information, but is not comprehensive in telling us about first century Judaism. It is more helpful than not, so it gets three stars. Rating: - Must reading for any thoughtful Christian - or Jew Prof. Amy-Jill Levine is a Jewish woman who attends an orthodox synagogue in Nashville and who occupies an endowed chair of New Testament studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School. If you make a habit of watching the various Jesus TV shows that appear around Christmastime and Easter, you've probably seen her on camera. A-J, as her students call her (I was her student for my M.Div., and still consider myself such) is an engaging lecturer with an appealing sense of humor and a simply awesome command of ... Read More Rating: - Jesus is Jewish! This is the best book available today about the Jewishness of Jesus. Amy Jill Levine points out that many of the Gospel stories would hit home with more of us if we read the New Testament with the eyes of a first century Jewish person. She points out the Jewishness of each line of the Lord's Prayer and its similarities with the Mourner's Kaddish in Judaism. She also shows that the parable of the Good Samaritan will be more powerful when we realize that the role model of the story is the enemy of the ... Read More Rating: - Towards Mutual Understanding This is a first-rate publication that takes the reader into the Jewishness of Jesus in a vivid manner while sensitive to Jewish-Christian differences. The book is both scholarly as well as pastoral for it seeks to establish common links and points of commonality between the religions. A must-read for anyone interested in Christian-Jewish dialogue today....and for understanding the outlook of much of the New Testament. Rating: - Creating a necessary dialogue Relations between Jews and Christians have improved significantly since Louis Brandeis was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by Woodrow Wilson in 1916, an action that sparked widespread hatred against Jews across the country. In fact, one of the sitting justices, a Christian, shunned Brandeis by not talking to him and even leaving the room whenever the new justice spoke. Despite the overall decline in anti-Semitism in America, occasional incidents, including attempts to convert Jews to ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Religious Studies - Humanities - New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - Christianity Religious Studies - Humanities - New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - Judaism Religious Studies - Humanities - New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS Qualifying Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS