
The Misunderstood Jew
The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus
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Narrated by:
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Donna Postel
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Amy Jill Levine
In 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.
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Beautiful, hopeful, balanced critique of the Church and interfaith relations.
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We do neither side any good, she suggests, by trying to erase the differences between Judaism and Christianity. To Christians, Jesus is the Messiah, and within Christian tradition there are good reasons for believing that. To Jews, he is not the Messiah, and within Jewish tradition there are good reasons for believing that. She presents the reasons on both sides.
Part of Levine's courage appears in her willingness to take even possible allies to task. All too often, she says, even liberal Christian scholars and presses cast Judaism in the role of an oppressive and rigid system against which Jesus was fighting. (The real oppressors in first-century Palestine were the Romans.)
Donna Postel's narration seems at times to be channeling Amy-Jill Levine. I've heard some of Levine's lectures in the Great Courses series, and I had to remind myself from time to time that this book was being read by someone other than the author.
Courageous
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Well researched.
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Not What I Expected or Wanted
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Excellent scholarship
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Brilliant and Informative
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Should Be Read By Every Christian
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I loved the details “Jesus wore tzitzit”, the “Sanhedrin would not meet during Passover” and her commentary on “Christian” seders.
The book reaffirmed my Jewish belief (not that I was entertaining becoming Christian) while giving me more insight into why there is so much anti-semitism. I was unaware of the explicit blame of Jews for Jesus’s death in the NT. Also her explanation of why the Jewish Tanakh and Christian OT are sequenced in a different order was fascinating.
I think I could re-read this book a few times and come away with new insights. I’m looking forward to reading more of Levine’s books, and now I’m following her on Facebook. She is awesome. I do wonder though how an Orthodox Jew can study and teach the NT and not be shut out by her community. I’m reform and some members of my community have shunned me for going to study at a seminary.
I like Levine’s discussion of Jewish-Christian dialogue but I find myself increasingly cut off from Judaism by the community the more I engage with Christians.
Engaging, fascinating and filled with details you probably never noticed in the NT
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Discussion of Israeli-Palestinian conflict in chapter 7 - YIKES
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Defensive Position
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