The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus

Country Western singer Kinky Friedman often performs a song entitled "They Aint Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore " and New Testament professor AmyJill Levine would agree. In fact her career is dedicated to helping Christians and Jews understand the Jewishness of Jesus thereby deepening the understanding of him and facilitating greater interfaith dialogue. In this book she shows how liberal Christians misunderstand Judaism misunderstand the New Testament and thus yank Jesus out of his Jewish context and wind up promoting hatred of Jews. Only with the deeper understanding this top Jewish Southernborn New Testament scholar provides can we hope to respect each others beliefs as well as enrich our own. Through a extremely busy teaching and speaking schedule Levine has honed her message at synagogues Catholic conferences Jewish Community Centers denominational meetings in the classroom and in her highly successful Teaching Company audios and videos. Levine is brilliant charming funny and forceful and uses these traits to give a completely fresh perspective on Jesus and the New Testament. In addition to offering new insights with great skill she has the remarkable ability to be tough pointing out how even liberal Christians can be unwittingly antiSemitic in their understanding of what Jesus stood for.Her truthtelling here will provoke honest dialogue on how Christians and Jews should understand Jesus and our New Testament heritage.