Zoom Event- Dr. Amy-Jill Levine: "Jesus’ Parables as Jewish Stories"
The CSULB Jewish Studies Program is deeply honored to welcome Professor Amy-Jill Levine back to Southern California. She will be discussing “Jesus’ Parables as Jewish Stories” via Zoom at 6 pm on Monday, April 7th. Here’s the Zoom link: https://csulb.zoom.us/j/87290266564
First-century Jews, including Jesus, knew that parables (Hebrew, mashalim משלים) were designed to challenge, to provoke, to engage the mind as well as the heart. Jesus told parables to fellow Jews: recovering that original setting corrects their frequent anti-Jewish interpretations, provides a grounding for better Jewish/Christian relations, and offers new insight into both ancient and contemporary social relations.
Amy-Jill Levine is the Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace, as well as
University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies Emerita, Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies Emerita, Professor of New Testament Studies Emerita, Vanderbilt University. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi, The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, and co-editor of the Jewish Annotated New Testament. She is an extremely popular and engaging speaker.
As always, Jewish Studies talks are free and open to the public.
