Bible with and Without Jesus - Leader Guide: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently...

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Marc Zvi Brettler Amy-Jill Levine

Bible with and Without Jesus - Leader Guide

How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently (The Bible with and Without Jesus...

Marc Zvi Brettler, Amy-Jill Levine

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Abingdon Press
01 June 2025

Bibles; Christian life & practice; Christian instruction

Scholars show how Jews and Christians read the same texts differently. The leader guide contains discussion questions and session plans for the study. It includes opening and closing prayers, optional activities, and weekly session goals. This leader guide, participant guide, and DVD are everything needed for an engaging study for your small group. In this Bible study based on their book, The Bible With and Without Jesus, esteemed Bible scholars and teachers Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler take readers on a guided tour of the most popular Hebrew Bible passages quoted in the New Testament to show what the texts meant in their original contexts and then how Jews and Christians, over time, understood those same texts. Passages include the creation of the world, the role of Adam and Eve, the Suffering Servant of Isiah, the book of Jonah, and Psalm 22, whose words, ""My God, my God, why have you forsaken me,"" Jesus quotes as he dies on the cross. Comparing various interpretations - historical, literary, and theological - of each ancient text, Levine and Brettler offer deeper understandings of the original narratives and their many afterlives. They show how the text speaks to different generations under changed circumstances, illuminating the Bible's ongoing significance. By understanding the depth and variety by which these passages have been, and can be, understood, The Bible With and Without Jesus does more than enhance our religious understandings; it helps us to see the Bible as a source of inspiration for any and all readers.

By: Marc Zvi Brettler, Amy-Jill Levine
Imprint: Abingdon Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: The Bible with and Without Jesus - Leader Guide ed.
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 4mm
Weight: 82g
ISBN: 9781791039547
ISBN 10: 1791039545
Pages: 64
Publication Date: 01 June 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr. Marc Zvi Brettler (Author) Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Amy-Jill Levine (Author) Amy-Jill Levine (""AJ"") is Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace and University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies Emerita, Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies Emerita, and Professor of New Testament Studies Emerita at Vanderbilt University. An internationally renowned scholar and teacher, she is the author of numerous books including The Difficult Words of Jesus: A Beginner's Guide to His Most Perplexing Teachings, Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi, Entering the Passion of Jesus: A Beginner's Guide to Holy Week, Light of the World: A Beginner's Guide to Advent, Sermon on the Mount: A Beginner's Guide to the Kingdom of Heaven, and Signs and Wonders: A Beginner's Guide to the Miracles of Jesus. She is also the coeditor of the Jewish Annotated New Testament. AJ is the first Jew to teach New Testament at Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute. In 2021 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. AJ describes herself as an unorthodox member of an Orthodox synagogue and a Yankee Jewish feminist who until 2021 taught New Testament in a Christian divinity school in the buckle of the Bible Belt.