The Kingdom of Heaven Is Like a Story:
The Parables for First – and Twenty-First – Century Ears

Our 2010 Perkins Lecturer will be Amy-Jill Levine the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, Graduate Department of Religion, and Program in Jewish Studies.

Holding a B.A. from Smith College, M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University, and honorary doctorates from the University of Richmond, the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, and the University of South Carolina- Upstate, Professor Levine has been awarded grants from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies.  She has held office in the Society of Biblical Literature, the Catholic Biblical Association (she is presently the New Testament book review editor for the Catholic Biblical Quarterly), and the Association for Jewish Studies.

Her most recent books include:

• The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus (HarperOne);
• The edited collection, The Historical Jesus in Context (Princeton Readings in Religions) (Princeton);
• The fourteen-volume series, Feminist Companions to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings (Continuum);
• The Cambridge Companion to the Bible (Companions to Religion) (Cambridge).

In addition, she has recorded “Introduction to the Old Testament,” “Great Figures of the Old Testament,” and “Great Figures of the New Testament” for the Teaching Company.

A self-described “Yankee Jewish feminist who teaches in a predominantly Christian divinity school in the buckle of the Bible Belt,” Professor Levine combines history and literary insight with a frequent dash of humor to bring aspects of the Scriptures down-to-earth.  In all of this, she maintains a commitment to eliminating anti-Jewish, sexist, and homophobic theologies.

2010 Lecture Series
The Kingdom of Heaven Is Like a Story:
The Parables for First – and Twenty-First – Century Ears

• Sunday, March 7, 2010 – 10:30am
  The Good Samaritan

• Sunday, March 7, 2010 – 7:00pm
  Hearing the Parables Anew

• Monday, March 8, 2010 – 12:00noon
  The Prodigal Son

• Monday, March 8, 2010 – 7:00pm
  The Laborers in the Vineyard

Posted on February 24th, 2010 by tsims in News, Perkins Lectures, Worship Times