Understanding the Jewish Jesus

Jesuitical

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Spirituality, Christianity, News, News Commentary, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 949 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Amy-Jill “AJ” Levine, a Jewish scholar of the New Testament and author of The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, sits down with Zac and Ashley at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, an Anglican Cathedral in New York City. It’s a dynamic interfaith conversation in an ecumenical setting, and AJ helps break open Jesus’ Jewish identity and context for the hosts. They discuss: AJ’s Jewish upbringing in Massachusetts and how she became interested in studying the New Testament Common anti-Jewish tropes and misconceptions in New Testament interpretation How interfaith dialogue can help Catholics and Jews better understand each other and ourselves And a final reminder that the deadline to apply to the O’Hare Fellowship is fast approaching. O’Hare Fellows spend a year living in New York City and working at America’s offices in midtown, where they will generate content for America’s multiple platforms: print, web, digital, social media and events. If you or someone you know might be interested in the O’Hare Fellowship, the final deadline to apply is February 1, 2024. Apply here! Jesuitical is going on the road in 2024! We hope you’ll join us. Please email us if you plan to attend any of the events below at, [email protected] Feb. 28: Crystal City Marriott Hotel in Arlington, VA Live interview with Cardinal Wilton Gregory on “A Listening Church in a Divided Nation” from 7-8 p.m. Reception to follow from 8-9 p.m. Please RSVP here. March 18: Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. Live interview with American TV Newscaster Carol Costello. Time and venue TBD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at the Loyola University, Chicago is proud to support Jesuitical.
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0:18.0	A celebration of the great Catholic jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams in a series of events featuring Deanna Witkowski in the annual Cardinal
0:26.0	Bernardin Common Cause Lecture, featuring Cardinal Christoph Pierre Apostolic Nuncio to the United States.
0:33.0	For the full lineup and information about upcoming events, please visit
0:37.0	W. W. W. W.
0:41.0	C.C.I. D. Hello and welcome to Jesuitical a podcast from America Media for Saints and
0:58.3	Sinners you can join us each week for honest conversations about the Catholic Church in our world today.
1:04.3	Often over drinks.
1:05.4	I'm Ashley McKinless and I'm joined by Zach Davis.
1:08.0	It's good to be with you Ashley.
1:09.6	We're recording this ahead of time because if you're listening to this right now,
1:12.3	we have hopefully wrapped up a great week in the Midwest
1:14.9	seeing a lot of you yes and I'm freezing still yes does the cold so we've
1:20.7	got a special episode this week no sOT's no signs of times no as one friend speaks to another but we have a great long thorough conversation with Amy Joe Levine.
1:30.6	Yeah we really wanted to give some space to this.
1:33.2	A.J, as she goes by, she is a Jewish New Testament scholar and the author of many books, including
1:39.8	the one that we really dig into in this conversation titled The
1:43.3	Misunderstood Jew, the Church, and the scandal of the Jewish Jesus. So we
1:48.6	get into a lot. She grew up in Massachusetts a Jewish girl in a majority Portuguese Catholic town so that was her
1:55.2	introduction to Christianity and so we ask her you know how she goes from that to
1:59.4	become a New Testament scholar and the meat of our conversation really is around what what Christians can gain by
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