Dr. Amy-Jill Levine is E. Rhodes and Leona B.
Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies at
Vanderbilt University Divinity School, Graduate
Department of Religion, and Program in Jewish
Studies. Holding a Ph.D. from Duke University,
Levine has been awarded grants from the Mellon
Foundation, the National Endowment for the
Humanities, and the American Council of Learned
Societies. She has recorded the “Introduction to the
Old Testament,” “Great Figures of the Old Testament,”
and “Great Figures of the New Testament”
for The Teaching Company’s Great Lecture Series.
Her most recent publications include The Misunderstood
Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus;
the edited collection, The Historical Jesus in Context;
and the fourteen volume edited series, Feminist Companions
to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings.
She is a self-described “Yankee Jewish feminist
who teaches in a predominantly Protestant divinity
school in the buckle of the Bible belt, who combines
historical-critical rigor, literary-critical
sensitivity, and a frequent dash of humor with a
commitment to eliminating anti-Jewish, sexist, and
homophobic theologies.”