Melissa Harl Sellew is Professor Emerita of Classical and Near Eastern Religions and Cultures at the University of Minnesota. She is the editor or coeditor of three previous collections: Pauline Conversations in Context: Essays in Honor of Calvin J. Roetzel; The Fabric of Early Christianity: Reflections in Honor of Helmut Koester by Fifty Years of Harvard Students; and Living for Eternity: The White Monastery and Its Neighborhood. Her recent publications bring a trans- sensitive lens to works like the Gospel of Thomas and Acts of Paul and Thecla. She is the recipient of a three-year NEH grant to support the digital humanities project Resurrecting Early Christian Lives as well as a recipient of the Arthur Motley Teaching Award from the University of Minnesota.