| John R. Levison is Associate Professor of
the Practice of Biblical Interpretation at The Divinity School, Duke University. He earned
a B.A. from Wheaton College, an M. A. from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. from Duke
University. He has also studied at the University of Tübingen in Germany, Yeshiva
University and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He has published numerous
articles and four other books: The Spirit in First Century Jewish Exegesis (Brill
1999), Jospehus’ Contra Apionem (Brill, 1996), Jesus in Global Contexts
(with Priscilla Pope-Levison, Westminster/John Knox, 1992), and Portraits of Adam in
Early Judaism (JSOT Press, 1988). He has taught at North Park College and Theological
Seminary, Saint Paul School of Theology, St. Mary’s College of the University of St.
Andrews, and Ohio Northern University. He is the co-chair of the Divine Mediator Figures
in Antiquity group of the National Society of Biblical Literature, a contributing reviewer
for Old Testament Abstracts, an assistant editor for the Journal for the Study of the
Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series, and a past consultant to the National Council of
Churches on Jewish and Christian relations. |
