Progressive Spirit

Amy-Jill Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University.   She is editor of the Jewish Annotated New Testament and is author of  The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus.  Her latest book is Short Stories By Jesus:  The Enigmatic Parables of A Controversial Rabbi.  She talks with me about the historical Jesus and the stories he told.