became a Christian through reading the New Testament. It may be assumed that his interest in the New Testament began with the public confession of faith his older brother, Leon, had made before leaving Palesting for Scotland.
He began with Matthew, but, he says, “I soon threw it away; it seemed to be a composition by some fanatic; too many miracles, too many impossible stories… and then at the end of the story the Nazarene is crucified! Well, they say, he rose again; but that was pure imagination!”. But Paul gripped him. At first Paul won his heart but not his mind. Then he came to Galatians and there he ‘found Paul answering many of my questions and solving many of my problems”. He followed his brother to Scotland, and was eventually ordained as a minister.
Nahum's story is told in a book written by Frederick Levison, the son of Leon.
Works
The Jewish background of Christianity, T. & T. Clark, 1932
The parables: their background and local setting, T. & T. Clark, 1926
The Proselyte in Biblical and Early Post-Biblical Times
The Jewish Background of Christianity. A manual of the political, religious, social and literary life of the Jews from 586 B.C. to A.D. 1
The parables: their background and local setting , T&T Clark, Edinburgh, 1926
An Aid to the Textual Amendment of the Old Testament. eds. J. Kennedy and Nahum Levison. 1928
Passiontide; or, the last days of the earthly life of the Master . 1927
The Parables: their background and local setting .1926
The Truth about the Jew (Church of Scotland Booklets. no. 23. 1939
An Aid to the Textual Amendment of the Old Testament ... Edited by N. Levison by James Kennedy and Nahum Levison (Unknown Binding - 1928)
Sources
Levison, Frederick. Christian and Jew: Leon Levison 1881-1936. Pentland Press, Edinburgh. 1989
