We invite you to join us at Elon University’s Main Campus this Thursday at 7pm in the McBride Space of the Numen Lumen Pavilion for the Truitt Center’s annual H. Shelton Smith Lecture featuring Dr. Amy-Jill Levine. Dr. Levine is one of the most important voices in biblical studies today, having authored and edited numerous books and essays on topics ranging from the historical Jesus to the parables of Jesus to feminist interpretations of the New Testament. She appears often in documentaries about the Bible (those National Geographic and History Channel shows you love to watch) and she has edited a version of the New Testament—The Jewish Annotated New Testament. In other words, she’s kind of a big deal!
On Thursday, Dr. Levine’s talk will be “Agreeing to Disagree: How Jews and Christians Read Scripture Differently.” This builds upon her NYT reviewed book The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, which explores why it is important to recognize the Jewishness of Jesus. A self-described “Yankee Jewish feminist … in the buckle of the Bible belt,” Dr. Levine is a lively and intellectually engaging speaker. You really won’t want to miss this and you’ll want your students to attend.
This talk is being funded in part by a generous grant from the Elon Fund for Excellence and is sponsored by the Religious Studies Department, the Truitt Center for Spiritual and Religious Life, the Center for the Study of Religion, Culture, and Society, and Elon’s Jewish Studies Program.
We look forward to seeing you there!
