Marc Brettler, a member of the American Academy for Jewish Research, is the Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Duke University.  He has also taught at Brandeis University, Yale University, Brown University, Wellesley College and Middlebury College.  He is the author of many books and articles on the Bible as history, metaphors and the Bible, gender and the Bible, the Jewish interpretation of the Bible, and the place of the New Testament in Judaism.  His most recent book is The Bible With and Without Jesus:  How Jews Christians Read the Same Story Differently (with Amy-Jill Levine). He has written for The Forward and The Jerusalem Report, has appeared on the Television series “Mysteries of the Bible,” was heard on the National Public Radio show “All Things Considered,” and was interviewed on “Fresh Air” by Terry Gross.