What can this work teach us about those who wrote it?. About the people we once were?. And can new academic understanding also speak to faith?. Taught by Professor Amy-Jill Levine. And though the focus of her lectures is on historical and literary issues, Professor Levine does not shy away from issues of religious concern, maintaining that the goal of an academic course is not to undermine religious faith, but to use that academic knowledge as a new source of insight into the writings that form a believer’s spiritual bedrock.