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Levine, Amy-Jill; Blickenstaff, Marianne, eds. (2001). A Feminist Companion to Matthew. Feminist companion to the New Testament and early Christian writings. Vol. 1. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. ISBN   978-1-841-27211-5. OCLC   47867557.
  • ; Blickenstaff, Marianne, eds. (2001). A Feminist Companion to Mark. Feminist companion to the New Testament and early Christian writings. Vol. 2. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. ISBN   978-1-841-27194-1. OCLC   49864189. [10]
  • ; Blickenstaff, Marianne, eds. (2002). A Feminist Companion to Luke. Feminist companion to the New Testament and early Christian writings. Vol. 3. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. ISBN   978-1-841-27174-3. OCLC   50616758. [11]
  • ; Blickenstaff, Marianne, eds. (2002). A Feminist Companion to John Volume 1. Feminist companion to the New Testament and early Christian writings. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
  • ; Blickenstaff, Marianne, eds. (2002). A Feminist Companion to John Volume 2. Feminist companion to the New Testament and early Christian writings. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. [12]
  • (2006). The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus . San Francisco, CA: Harper-Collins. ISBN   978-0-060-78966-4. OCLC   70199942. [13]
  • ; Allison, Dale C.; Crossan, John Dominic, eds. (2006). The Historical Jesus in Context. Princeton Readings in Religions. Princeton. ISBN   978-0-691-00992-6. [14]
  • ; Brettler, Marc Zvi, eds. (2011). The Jewish Annotated New Testament . Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN   978-0195297706. [15]
  • Levine, Amy-Jill; Brettler, Marc Zvi (2020). The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently. HarperOne. ISBN   9780062560155. OCLC   1137745257.
  • ; Sievers, Joseph, eds. (2021). The Pharisees. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. ISBN   978-0-8028-7929-5. OCLC   1237694143.
  • (2014). Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi. HarperOne. ISBN   978-0-061-56103-0. [16]
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    Amy-Jill Levine
    Born1956 (age 6768)
    NationalityAmerican
    Other namesA. J. Levine
    SpouseJay Geller [1]
    Academic background
    Alma mater
    Thesis The Matthean Program of Salvation History (1984)
    Doctoral advisorD. Moody Smith