As one who "reads the New Testament and happily goes to synagogue," Amy-Jill Levine has much to teach Christians and Jews alike in "reading the text in a historically faithful way." An orthodox Jew, Professor Levine serves as Professor of New Testament at Vanderbilt University. In this clip from "Saving Jesus," Dr. Levine discusses her childhood experiences with antisemitism that led to a calling in NT scholarship.
I love it when she said that when she was a young child, she thought that priests wore those special collars so that the little white part would choke them if they told a lie, which she thinks would be a splendid idea for all clergy, and then he says, "There'd be no clergy left."
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