Amy-Jill Levine#
| Membership Number: | 7000 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
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Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, Hartford International University for Religion and Peace, Hartford, CT, USA
- 1995 - 2021 University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies Emerita, Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies Emerita, Professor of New Testament Studies Emerita, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN
- 2019 Visiting Faculty, Pontifical Biblical Institute (Biblicum), Rome.
- 2011 Affiliated Professor, Woolf Institute: Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge, UK
- 1985 - 1994 Swarthmore College, Sarah Lawrence Lightfoot Associate Professor of Religion, Swarthmore, PA
Fields of Scholarship
- Christian origins
- Jewish-Christian relations
- Sexuality
- Second Temple Judaism
- Religion
- Gender
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation, The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Awards, Lambeth Palace.
- 2022 Bridge Award, Council of Christians and Jews, UK London
- 2022 Seelisberg Prize for Contributions to Jewish-Christian Relations (A joint endeavor of the International Council of Christians and Jews [ICCJ] and the Center for Intercultural Theology and the Study of Religion at the University of Salzburg)
- 2021 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Elected
- 2019 Shevet Achim Award for Outstanding Contributions to Jewish-Christian Understanding, Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations, USA
- 2015 Franklin College, Franklin, IN, Doctor of Divinity (hon.)
- 2011 Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, IN, Doctor of Humane Letters (hon.), 2011
- 2010 Drury University, Springfield, MO, Doctor of Humane Letters (hon.)
- 2009 American Jewish Committee and St. Leo University Center for Catholic Jewish Studies, Tampa, FL, Eternal Light Award
- 2009 University of South Carolina-Upstate, Spartanburg, SC, Doctor of Religious Education (hon.)
- 2008 Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, TX, Doctor of Humane Letters (hon.)
- 2003 University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, Doctor of Divinity (hon.)
- 2001 Mentoring Award, Society of Biblical Literature, Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession.
- 1992 - 1993 National Endowment for the Humanities Research Grant for College Teachers
- 1992 - 1993 American Council of Learned Societies Grant
