Lecture: Paul the Jew—Continuities and Contradictions
- Posted:
- July 2nd, 2009
- Guest
- AEST
- Building H, Theatre H125
Caulfield Campus, 900 Dandenong Road
Monash University
Victoria 3800
Australia
Amy-Jill Levine presents her only Melbourne lecture, “Paul the Jew—Continuities and Contradictions”.
Amy-Jill Levine is Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and author of The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus.
Saul of Tarsus was a Jew who became St. Paul, the church’s foremost missionary. Today he is both hailed as the inspired evangelist who brought the God of Israel to the Gentiles, and condemned as a self-hating Jew who distorted the teachings of both Judaism and Jesus. In this lecture Amy-Jill Levine will explore Paul’s Jewish identity, his understanding of Torah, and his views on the role of the Jewish people in the divine plan.
The lecture is hosted by the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation.