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xiii Contributors Jouette M. Bassler is professor emerita of New Testament at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. She is the author of numerous articles on a variety of New Testament topics and several books on Paul, including Divine Impartiality: Paul and a Theological Axiom (Scholars Press, 1982); 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus (Abingdon Press, 1996); and Navigating Paul: An Introduction to Key Theological Concepts (Westminster John Knox Press, 2007). Dr. Colleen M. Conway is professor of religion at Seton Hall University. She is the author of Behold the Man: Jesus and Greco-Roman Masculinity (Oxford University Press, 2008) and numerous articles on gender in the New Testament. Eloy Escamilla holds an MDiv/MA from Catholic Theological Union. He is the director of religious education, youth ministry, and faith formation at Our Lady of Guadalupe parish in Chicago. He leads Bible workshops at the Claretian Bible Schools of the USA–Canada Province. Dr. Eh Tar Gay serves as academic dean, associate professor of New Testament , and director of the Gender Studies Center at the Myanmar Institute of Theology, Insein Township, Myanmar. She received her PhD from the University of Birmingham (2011), writing her dissertation on “Authority and Submission in Some New Testament Letters: Postcolonial Feminist Reading from Myanmar.” Her research and teaching interests include xiv 1–2 Timothy, Titus gender, power, and violence; feminist theology; postcolonial readings of the New Testament; and the New Testament and current issues. Jennifer A. Glancy is professor of religious studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. Her publications include Slavery in Early Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2010; paperback edition, Fortress Press, 2006); Corporal Knowledge: Early Christian Bodies (Oxford University Press, 2010); and Slavery as Moral Problem: In the Early Church and Today (Fortress Press, 2011). Ekram Kachu received her MDiv from the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary and has been ordained as a ruling elder by the Presbytery of Des Moines (PC-USA). She serves as Organizing Pastor of The First Arabic Presbyterian Church of Des Moines. Marianne Bjelland Kartzow is working as a professor in New Testament studies at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo, Norway. After finishing her PhD on the Pastoral Epistles (2007), she has been interested in questions of method and theory and worked extensively with Luke–Acts. She is the author of two monographs: Gossip and Gender: Othering of Speech in the Pastoral Epistles and Destabilizing the Margins: An Intersectional Approach to Early Christian Memory (Walter de Gruyter, 2009). Emerson Powery is professor of biblical studies and coordinator of ethnic and area studies at Messiah College and an adjunct instructor in Bible at Lancaster Theological Seminary. He is one of the editors of True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary (Fortress Press, 2007) and will soon publish “The Bible and Slavery in American Life” in The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) and co-authored The Genesis of Liberation: Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved (Westminster John Knox, 2016). His passion is to grapple with how the Bible functions in underrepresented communities. Anna Rebecca Solevåg is associate professor at VID Specialized University (Stavanger, Norway). She is the author of Birthing Salvation: Gender and Class in Early Christian Childbearing Discourse (Brill, 2013). Her research currently revolves around biblical interpretation and issues of disability, gender, and sexuality. [3.16.83.150] Project MUSE (2024-04-23 17:15 GMT) Contributors xv Wolfgang Stegemann is professor emeritus of New Testament at Augustana College, Neuendettelsau, Germany, and associate editor of Kirche und Israel (Church and Israel), an international journal on Christian-Jewish dialogue. His research interests include the social history of early Christianity , Luke–Acts, and the history and theology of ancient Judaism. Elsa Tamez is Mexican-Costarrican. She is emeritus professor of biblical studies of the Latin American Biblical University. She completed her doctoral degree in theology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She has written several books and many articles. Among her books translated in English: Bible of the Oppressed (Orbis Books, 1982); The Scandalous Message of James (Crossroad, 1990); Amnesty of Grace: Justification by Faith from a Latin American Perspective (Abingdon Press, 1993); Struggles for Power in Early Christianity: A Study of the First Letter of Timothy (Orbis Books, 2007). She has received several awards for her contribution on contextual biblical hermeneutics. Dr. Jay Twomey is associate professor and head of the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University...