How Jews & Christians Read the Same Stories Differently - Dr Levine & Dr Brettler

We're honored and grateful for the opportunity to learn from Dr. Amy-Jill Levine and Dr. Marc Zvi Brettler in this week's podcast about their latest book "The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently."

In this episode, Dr. Levine & Dr. Brettler chat with us about how Jewish and Christian traditions have interpreted the same Biblical stories in different ways. And they invite us all to acknowledge our own theological biases when reading the Bible and to learn to enjoy and objectively read our Bibles (and to get comfortable with the never-ending questions that will arise with readings).

Dr. Amy-Jill Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies and Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt (Divinity and A&S); she is also Affiliated Professor, Woolf Institute: Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge. She has also taught at Swarthmore College, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Marc Brettler, a member of the American Academy for Jewish Research and the Council of the Society of Biblical Literature, is the Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Duke University. The Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies Emeritus and former chair of the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, he has also taught at Yale University, Brown University, Wellesley College and Middlebury College.

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Index

00:00 Intro
01:03 The Bible With & Without Jesus
04:28 Jewish & Christian Interpretations
10:30 Engage the Bible & Acknowledge Biases
13:00 Understand Different Perspectives
14:12 Our understanding of Bible should evolve
21:11 "Let us make man in our image"
23:00 Different scriptures
24:57 Monotheism in Hebrew Bible
25:42 Book of Job
27:30 Anthropomorphic scriptures