Amy-Jill Levine

“The Gospel of John Leader Guide” (2024)

“The Difficult Words of Jesus” (2021)

“Sermon on the Mount: A Beginner's Guide to the Kingdom of Heaven” (2020)

Sermon on the Mount: A Beginner's Guide to the Kingdom of Heaven

“Short Stories By Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables Of A Controversial Rabbi” (2020)

Jesus was a skilled storyteller and perceptive teacher who used parables from everyday life to effectively convey his message and meaning. Life in first-century Palestine was very different from our world today, and many traditional interpretations of Jesus' stories ignore this disparity and have often allowed anti-Semitism and misogyny to color their perspectives. In this wise, entertaining, and educational book, Amy-Jill Levine offers a fresh, timely reinterpretation of Jesus' narratives. In Short Stories by Jesus, she analyzes these "problems with parables," taking us back in time to understand how their original Jewish audience understood them. Levine reveals the parables' connections to first-century economic and agricultural life, social customs and morality, Jewish scriptures and Roman culture. With this revitalized understanding, she interprets these moving stories for a contemporary reader, showing how the parables are not just about Jesus, but are also about us-and when read rightly, still challenge and provoke us two thousand years later.

“Women Like This: New Perspectives On Jewish Women In The Greco-roman World (society Of Biblical Literature, Early Judaism And Its Literature)” (2008)

Women Like This: New Perspectives On Jewish Women In The Greco-roman World (society Of Biblical Literature, Early Judaism And Its Literature)