responsibility for the death of jesus, how the new testament characterizes jewish groups, particularly the pharisees, and we need to know that within historical context. that doesn't mean we erase them. it doesn't mean we fudge the translation. it means we deal with them just as jews have dealt with those problematic passages in the shared scriptures. >> levine believes christians too can benefit from studying the judaism of jesus. >> jews have been arguing about the law since moses came down the mountain. thank you for that amen, that's lovely. i wish that happened in my synagogue more often. >> on this day, she was a guest lecturer at the evangelical oral roberts university. >> unless christian preachers, teachers, bible study leaders know about first century judaism, often what happens is jesus gets yanked out of his jewish context and he becomes the only jew who's compassionate toward women, interested in adapting torah, interested in adapting the law to the needs of the contemporary community, the only jew interested in peace among a group of very bellicose, warlike jews. >> she says when chris