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The Nativity Narratives: A Deeper Look
with Amy-Jill Levine and John Dominic Crossan

Sundays, December 5 and 12 – 5:00 p.m. VIRTUAL EVENT

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We are delighted that Dr. Amy-Jill Levine and Dr. John Dominic Crossan will be with us over two Sunday evenings during Advent to discuss the beloved Nativity stories from the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. These two renowned scholars will share fuller viewpoints and observations as well as anecdotes from their own lives and research.

Amy-Jill Levine 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. She is the author of numerous books, and she is the co-editor of the Jewish Annotated New Testament.

John Dominic Crossan is an Irish-American biblical scholar with two-year post-doctoral diplomas in exegesis from Rome’s Pontifical Biblical Institute and in archeology from Jerusalem’s École Biblique. He has been a mendicant friar and a catholic priest, a Co-Chair of the Jesus Seminar, and a President of the Society of Biblical Literature. His focus, whether scholarly or popular, whether in books, videos, or lectures, is on the historical Jesus as the norm and criterion for the entire Christian Bible. Crossan’s method is to situate biblical texts within the reconstructed matrix of their own genre and purpose, their own time and place, and to hear them accurately for then before accepting or rejecting them for now.