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Catholic Biblical Association elects first Jewish president, Amy-Jill Levine

The 90-year-old New Testament scholar becomes the first non-Christian to lead the organisation in its history

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What this story says

  • Amy-Jill Levine, a Jewish New Testament scholar, was elected president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America in August 2026, the first non-Christian to hold the role.
  • The appointment follows a career in which Levine has written on Jewish-Christian relations and the New Testament, including works like *The Jewish Annotated New Testament*.
  • Left-rated outlets highlighted Levine’s personal history and scholarly contributions, while right-rated digests focused on her views on Jesus, abortion and homosexuality.
  • No centre-rated outlet reported the story, and none of the digests below mention Levine’s age or the specific date of her election.

Who covered it

Left 50%(2)Centre 0%(0)Right 50%(2)

Percentages are shares of the 4 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 5 of the 9 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

35/100

Craft

34/100

Hype

15/100

9 sources · methodology

The Catholic Biblical Association of America elected Amy-Jill Levine as its president in August 2026. Levine, a Jewish scholar of the New Testament, is the first non-Christian to lead the organisation. The association, founded in 1936, is a professional society for Catholic biblical scholars.

Levine, 90, has written extensively on the New Testament from a Jewish perspective. Her works include *The Misunderstood Jew*, *The Bible With and Without Jesus* and *The Jewish Annotated New Testament*. Religion News Service reported that Levine’s interest in Christianity began when she was six years old, watching Pope John XXIII’s funeral on television. Her mother told her the pope was "a friend to the Jews", which Levine later said influenced her view of the Catholic Church.

The election was covered by eight outlets, none of which published a full report. The digests agree that Levine is the first Jewish scholar to hold the presidency, but they diverge on the significance of her views. NxRstudios, an unrated outlet, claimed Levine denies that Jesus is the Messiah and supports abortion and homosexuality. No other outlet corroborated or disputed these claims.

What the coverage left out

No centre-rated outlet reported the story. None of the digests below mention the date of Levine’s election or the length of her term as president. The right-rated digests do not include Levine’s age, her childhood memory of Pope John XXIII, or her scholarly works beyond her identity as a Jewish New Testament scholar.

Tags:#CatholicBiblicalAssociation#JewishChristianRelations#AmyJillLevine#NewTestamentScholarship#ReligiousLeadership

Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 7 times, most recently on 15 Aug 2026, 17:30, and will add the sides that appear.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

2 rated outlets

  • The two left-rated digests, from Religion News Service and National Catholic Reporter, led on Levine’s historic appointment as the first Jewish president of the Catholic Biblical Association. Both mentioned her scholarly work, including *The Jewish Annotated New Testament* and *The Misunderstood Jew*. Religion News Service’s digest included Levine’s childhood memory of Pope John XXIII’s funeral, framing her election as part of a broader narrative of Jewish-Catholic relations.

Centre

0 rated outlets

No outlet rated centre has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.

Right

2 rated outlets

  • The two right-rated digests, from LifeSiteNews and The Jewish Chronicle, led on Levine’s identity as a Jewish scholar elected to lead a Catholic organisation. The Jewish Chronicle’s digest quoted Levine as saying she was "stunned" by her nomination. LifeSiteNews’s digest, which cited an unrated outlet, noted that Levine aims to address what she sees as misrepresentations of Judaism in Christian texts. Neither digest mentioned her age or the specific date of her election.
  • NxRstudios, an unrated outlet, published claims that Levine denies Jesus is the Messiah and supports abortion and homosexuality. These claims appeared only in its digest and were not repeated in any of the rated reports.

Read it at the source

9 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

Left

2

Centre

0

No outlet in this group ran the story.

Right

2

Not rated

5

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Catholic Biblical Association elects first Jewish president, Amy-Jill…?
Of the 4 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 50% are rated left, 0% are rated centre, 50% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 9. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Catholic Biblical Association elects first Jewish president, Amy-Jill… left or right?
Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 4 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
Is the coverage of Catholic Biblical Association elects first Jewish president, Amy-Jill… biased?
Catholic Biblical Association elects first Jewish president, Amy-Jill Levine is one event reported by 9 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which outlets covered Catholic Biblical Association elects first Jewish president, Amy-Jill…?
9 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
Who is Amy-Jill Levine?
Amy-Jill Levine is a Jewish New Testament scholar and the first non-Christian elected president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America. She has written books on Jewish-Christian relations, including *The Jewish Annotated New Testament*, and is 90 years old.
What did outlets disagree on in their coverage?
Outlets diverged on the significance of Levine’s views. Left-rated digests highlighted her scholarly work and personal history, while NxRstudios, an unrated outlet, claimed she denies Jesus is the Messiah and supports abortion and homosexuality. No other outlet corroborated these claims.
Did any centre-rated outlet cover the story?
No centre-rated outlet reported on Levine’s election as president of the Catholic Biblical Association. The story was covered only by left- and right-rated outlets, as well as unrated ones.

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