Amy-Jill Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, and Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School and College of Arts and Science in Nashville, Tennessee; Affiliated Professor at the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations at Cambridge; and a self-described ""Yankee Jewish feminist who teaches in a predominantly Christian divinity school in the buckle of the Bible Belt."" She is the author of The Misunderstood Jew, The Meaning of the Bible (coauthored with Douglas Knight), and the editor of The Jewish Annotated New Testament.
PRAISE FOR A. J. LEVINE: ""Levine ultimately allows Jesus to become ""a bridge,"" spanning the gap between modern Jews and Christians."" -- New York Times ""Every book from Levine startles me with its brilliance and pluck."" -- Barbara Brown Taylor ""No two people have done as much to help educate and challenge Christians as Levine and Brettler."" -- James Martin, SJ, New York Times bestselling author of Learning to Pray and Come Forth ""As a Jewish scholar and a clever raconteur, Levine's writing is totally absorbing."" -- Christian Century ""Abundant in scholarship and leavened by gentle humor."" -- Rabbi Harold Kushner ""Levine is learned by scholarly standards, a wonderful writer by literary standards, and a sensitive, witty, and wise teacher by human standards."" -- Richard Elliott Friedman ""Levine's writing is full of vim, vigor, and vitality."" -- Dr. Ben Witherington, III