Bearing False Witness: How Christian Preaching and Teaching Malign Jewish Practice and Belief

AJ Levine is Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Prof. of NT and Jewish Studies, Hartford International University for Religion and Peace; University Prof. of NT and Jewish Studies/Mary Jane Werthan Prof. of Jewish Studies Emerita, Vanderbilt. Books include The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus; Short Stories by Jesus; 6 children’s books (w/ S. Sasso); Gospel of Luke (w/ B. Witherington III); The Jewish Annotated New Testament and The Bible With and Without Jesus (w/ M. Brettler), The Pharisees (w/ J. Sievers), 13 Feminist Companions to the New Testament, and 7 Beginner’s Guides. First Jew to teach New Testament at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, member: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, recipient of the Seelisberg Prize for Jewish-Christian Relations and the H. Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation from Archbishop of Canterbury, AJ, an unorthodox member of an Orthodox synagogue, works to counter harmful exegesis.