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    <![CDATA[The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Country Western singer Kinky Friedman often performs a song entitled &quot;They Ain't Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore,&quot; and New Testament professor Amy&ndash;Jill 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, Southern&ndash;born New Testament scholar provides can we hope to respect each other's beliefs, as well as enrich our own.</p><p> 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 anti&ndash;Semitic in their understanding of what Jesus stood for.Her truth&ndash;telling here will provoke honest dialogue on how Christians and Jews should understand Jesus and our New Testament heritage.</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Old Testament CDs: The Teaching Company]]>
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    <![CDATA[Course Lecture Titles<br/><br/>1. In the Beginning <br/>2. Adam and Eve <br/>3. Murder, Flood, Dispersion <br/>4. Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar <br/>5. Isaac <br/>6. The Jacob Saga <br/>7. Folklore Analysis and Type Scenes <br/>8. Moses and Exodus <br/>9. The God of Israel <br/>10. Covenant and Law, Part I <br/>11. Covenant and Law, Part II <br/>12. The Conquest <br/>13. The Book of Judges, Part I <br/>14. The Book of Judges, Part II <br/>15. Samuel and Saul <br/>16. King David <br/>17. From King Solomon to Preclassical Prophecy <br/>18. The Prophets and the Fall of the North <br/>19. The Southern Kingdom <br/>20. Babylonian Exile <br/>21. Restoration and Theocracy <br/>22. Wisdom Literature <br/>23. Life in the Diaspora <br/>24. Apocalyptic Literature]]>
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    <![CDATA[An Essential Guide to the Jewish Context of the New Testament]]>
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    <![CDATA[Jesus was Jewish, and he spoke to a Jewish audience in the Gospels. The writers of the New Testament were Jewish, and they lived and thought in a Jewish milieu that involved their long history, social structure, culture, and religious practice. The Bible of Jesus, the New Testament writers, and the first Christians was the Hebrew Bible—the Christian Old Testament. We hear Jewish prayers and read about Jesus and Paul preaching in the synagogue, quoting the Hebrew Scripture. The major figures that we read about in the New Testament and other contemporary writings belong to this tradition—the priests, Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, and Herodians. And the origins of Christianity are intimately tied to the fate of the Jews in Palestine during the first century, through, especially, the destruction of the second temple in 70 C.E. Hence, the New Testament and the origins of Christianity cannot be fully understood without understanding this Jewish Background.         There is, quite simply, no better guide to the Jewish background of the New Testament than Amy-Jill Levine. She will leads the reader to better understanding the New Testament by illustrating the text’s Jewish environment and language, as well as the roots of the New Testament faith in the Jewish Scriptures and its interpretive traditions. The reader will gain an appreciation for this context that will help mitigate the perceived anti-Judaism in the New Testament, which has, in turn, tragically led to anti-Semitism in the Church.         The purpose of the Abingdon Essential Guides is to fulfill the need for brief, substantive, yet highly accessible introductions to the core disciples in biblical, theological, and religious studies. Drawing on the best in current scholarship, written with the need of students foremost in mind, addressed to learners in a number of contexts, Essential Guides will be the first choice of those who wish to acquaint themselves or their students with the broad scope of issues, perspectives, and subject matters within biblical and religious studies.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Feminist Companion to Paul: Deutero-Pauline Writings]]>
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    <![CDATA[The seventh volume of this companion series is devoted to the writings ascribed to Paul but widely thought not to be genuinely from the Apostle. These are of particular importance in showing how Paul's authority was exploited in the Early Church, and the topics addressed often deal with Christian discipline and hierarchy. Hence there is a particularly strong feminist agenda to be explored here. The Pastoral Epistles, Ephesians and Colossians are prominent among the writings addressed in this collection, and the authors include: David Scholer, Louise Schottroff, Bonnie Thurston, Lilian Portefaix, Sara Winter and Ingrid Rosa Kitzberger.]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Great Courses]]>
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    <![CDATA[Tweleve lectures on four DVDs, two Course Guides]]>
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    <![CDATA[The thirteenth volume in the series examines New Testament Apocalypitc literature through the categories of post-colonial thought, deconstruction, ethics, Roman social discourse, masculinization, virginity, and violence.The volume includes contributions by David L. Barr, Mary Ann Beavis, Greg Carey, Adela Yarbro Collins, Lynn R. Huber, Catherine Keller, John Marshall, Stephen Moore, Jorunn Okland, Hanna Stenstrom, Pamela Thimmes, and Carolyn Vander Stichele. There is an introduction by the editor and a comprehensive bibliography.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Feminist Companion to John]]>
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    <![CDATA[This successor to the &quot;Feminist Companion to the Bible&quot; brings together the new and classical studies of the New Testament and early Christian literary corpus from the whole range of feminist perspectives now available. The first of two volumes devoted to the Johannine literature, this deals with the Fourth Gospel. The contents include an introduction by the editor, F. Scott Spencer on &quot;You Just Don't Understand&quot; (Or Do You?): Jesus, Women, and Conversation in the Fourth Gospel; Jennifer Berenson McLean on &quot;The Divine Trickster: A Tale of Two Weddings in John&quot;; Stephen Moore, &quot;Are There Impurities in the Living Water that the Johannine Jesus Dispenses?&quot; and Jerome Neyrey, &quot;What's Wrong with this Picture?: John 4, Cultural Stereotypes of Women, and Public and Private Space&quot;. Jane Webster writes on &quot;Overcoming Difference: Strange Woman to Samaritan Woman&quot;; Mona West on &quot;The Raising of Lazarus: A Lesbian Coming Out Story&quot;; Holly Toensing on &quot;Divine Intervention or Divine Intrusion? Jesus and the Adulteress in John's Gospel&quot;; and Ingrid Rosa Kitzberger on &quot;Transcending Gender Boundaries in John&quot;.]]>
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    <![CDATA[A Feminist Companion to Luke]]>
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    <![CDATA[This third volume in the &quot;feminist companions&quot; series deals with Lukan themes in feminist perspectives. The 14 essays from an international authorship cover a range of issues, including imperial masculinity, Mary and asceticism, Martha in the kitchen and reading Luke 15 with Arab-Christian women. The list of contributors includes Robert Karris, Mary Rose D'Angelo, Brigitte Kahl, Turid Karlsen Seim, Barbara Reid, Teresa Hornsby, Ben Witherington III, Esther DeBoer, Veronica Koperski, Loveday Alexander, Warren Carter, Pamela Thimmes, Carol Schersten Lahurd and Maris-Luisa Rigato.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Feminist Companion to Paul: The Authentic Pauline Writings]]>
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    <![CDATA[The sixth volume in this series deals with the letters that are generally attributed to the apostle Paul. In this formidable collection, contributors including Richard Hays, Daniel Boyarin, Kathleen Corley, Beverly Gaventa, Margaret MacDonald and Luise Schottroff explore such topics as gender, sexuality, marriage, the physical body, leadership, economic justice, Jewish-Christian relations, metaphors of birth and motherhood, adoption, and slavery.]]>
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