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Sherman Lectures 2015 - Amy-Jill Levine: "Jesus in his Jewish Context: The Importance of Recovering History"

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Dates:27 April 2015
Times:17:15 - 19:00
What is it:Lecture
Organiser:School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
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  • In group "(ALC) Religions and Theology"
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Jesus and his first followers were Jews, thoroughly grounded in Jewish Scripture, Jewish ethics and theology, and Jewish hopes. To understand the New Testament materials is thus to recover part of Jewish history. This presentation explores how knowledge of this common history not only became lost, but how Christian interpretation began to bear false witness against Jesus’ Jewish context by characterizing it as legalistic, elitist, obsessed with ritual purity, misogynistic, vengeful, and xenophobic. It then shows how the Gospels themselves can be used to correct these false and noxious stereotypes.

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