From Donation to Diatribe: How Anti-Jewish Interpretation Cashes Out

Amy-Jill Levine delivered the Comparative Theology Lecture on October 17, 2012. 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 Sciences. In Mark 12:41-44, Jesus says of a poor widow who makes a donation to the Jerusalem Temple: "she has thrown in her whole life." Is the widow exploited by a Jewish system that values money over compassion? Is she a faithful worshiper who reveals the Temple's welcome of rich and poor, male and female? Is she a foreshadowing of Jesus, who will give up his life as a "ransom for many?" The answers depend upon the reader's sensibilities.

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She does not believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of the living God. It is the Fathers will to believe in the one He sent. Even I can read the NT and know the message. Her message is different. She sees a Jewish Jesus. I see one who was before Abraham was born. Jesus who is our life and salvation.
She states the Apostles were not good at recognizing Jesus's metaphors.
Jesus said to them, "Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, "you have no life in you".

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Randy, if you read your New Testament, you must know that Jesus was a Jew, Nazareth was his home. How we interpret his life, death and resurrection doesn't cancel that out. It is what the Gospels build on.

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You followed the whole lecture and THAT is what you took away?? Sad.

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Yes, we read the same book (OT/Tanack) and understand it very differently. Dr Levine tries to promote interfaith. “Be true to your faith and be a blessing to others”. Late Chief Rabbi of UK