Jesus for Everyone Quotes

“Were Christians to take more seriously the Jewish context of Jesus and Paul, and to listen more closely to how we Jews understand our own tradition, they’d be better Bible readers, better disciples of Jesus, and better neighbors.”
― Amy-Jill Levine, Jesus for Everyone: Why He Should Matter More to Everyone

“This book reframes that question—“What would Jesus do?”—by asking, instead, how a historical approach to the stories of and by Jesus, coupled with awareness of how these narratives have been understood over time, helps us see better what matters in his world, and ours. This book asks how Jesus and the Gospels can help us get through the minefields of today’s culture wars in such a way that we bind up wounds rather than blow up bodies.”
― Amy-Jill Levine, Jesus for Everyone: Why He Should Matter More to Everyone