Michael Philip Penn isTeresa Hihn Moore Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. He is author of When Christians First Met Muslims: A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam, Envisioning Islam: Syriac Christians in the Early Muslim World, and Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church.

Scott Fitzgerald Johnson is Joseph F. Paxton Presidential Associate Professor and Chair of Classics and Letters at the University of Oklahoma. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018. He is author of Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity andThe Life and Miracles of Thekla: A Literary Study and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity, among other volumes.

Christine Shepardsonis Lindsay Young Professor and Department Head of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee. She is author ofAnti-Judaism and Christian Orthodoxy: Ephrems Hymns in Fourth-Century SyriaandControlling Contested Places: Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy and coeditor ofDealing with Difference: Christian Patterns ofResponse to Religious Rivalry in Late Antiquity and Beyond.

Charles M. Stang is Professor of Early Christian Thought and Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. He is author ofOur Divine Double andApophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite: No Longer I.

Books by Michael Philip Penn