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Amy Jill Levine Clears 2000 Years worth of misconceptions between Jews and Christians

The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit’s SAJE (Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment) will present Amy-Jill Levine, speaking on  “The Jewish Annotated New Testament: Why Jews (and Christians) Should Read this Book,” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 10 at The Berman Center for the Performing Arts.

Amy-Jill Levine’s fascination with Catholicism began at a very young age most of her friends were Catholic, and she often tagged along to mass. “I found it inspiring and a tad mysterious,” she says. “I was very attracted to some of the rituals. I always knew they weren’t mine, but I thought they were beautiful anyway.” One afternoon when one of Levine’s classmates approached her on the school bus and said, “You killed our Lord. My priest said so.”  “I announced to my parents that I would go to catechism, Catholic religious education class, and I was going to find out where this hateful teaching came from, and I was going to stop it,” she says.

She will discuss the New Testament and Jewish history, the relationship between Jesus’ followers and the Jewish community, and what all of this has meant – and can mean - for relations between Jews and Christians. Her goal has remained the same: To clear up 2,000 years’ worth of misconceptions between Jews and Christians.


The Jewish Annotated New Testament
Amy-Jill Levine,
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 10 at The Berman Center for the Performing Arts

Amy-Jill Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies and Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and College of Arts and Science.

A dessert reception, book sale and signing will follow the program. The cost is $10 for JCC members and $12 for non-members. Registration is requested by Friday, December 6. To purchase tickets, please visit theberman.org or call 248.661.1900. The Berman Center for the Performing Arts is at 6600 W. Maple Road in West Bloomfield.



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