Reviews of Books & Films
How Jews and Christians Read the Bible Differently
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A review and response to Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler’s The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Bible Differently (HarperOne, 2020).
Rabbi Tamara Cohn Eskenazi
Rabbi Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, Ph.D. is the Effie Wise Ochs Professor of Biblical Literature and History at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles. Her The Torah: A Women’s Commentary (edited with Rabbi Andrea L. Wise, Ph.D. 2008) has received the 2008 Jewish Book of the Year Award by the National Jewish Book Council, and her JPS Bible Commentary: Ruth received the 2011 Women Studies Book Award by the Jewish Book Council. Her area of specialty includes postexilic literature and history, with a commentary on Ezra 1-10 forthcoming (Anchor Bible, Yale University Press). She is the proud mother of five and proud grandmother of five.