New Testament Expert, Amy-Jill Levine!

Our first guest today is Amy-Jill Levine, the 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 Sciences. Professor Levine has been awarded grants from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She has held office in the Society of Biblical Literature, the Catholic Biblical Association, and the Association for Jewish Studies. Her books include The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, The Historical Jesus in Context, and as well as the editor of The Jewish Annotated New Testament. With us today to talk about her most recent book, Short Stories by Jesus: the Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi, Amy-Jill Levine!

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