A Child is Born: The Nativity Birth Stories in the Framework of the Hebrew Tradition

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A Child is Born: The Nativity Birth Stories in the Framework of the Hebrew Tradition
Dr. Amy-Jill Levine

Amy-Jill Levine is Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace, and University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies Emerita at Vanderbilt University. Her research treats Second Temple Judaism, Jewish-Christian relations, the historical Jesus, and the parables, with sustained attention to eliminating antisemitic, sexist, and homophobic readings of biblical texts. In spring 2019 she taught New Testament at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, the first Jew to do so, and she had multiple audiences with Pope Francis. Levine serves as New Testament editor of the Oxford Biblical Commentary Series and as editor or volume editor for several volumes in the Wisdom Commentary series.