Michael Philip Penn is Teresa 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 and
The Life and Miracles of Thekla: A Literary Study and editor of
The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity, among other volumes.
Christine Shepardson is Lindsay Young Professor and Department Head of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee. She is author of
Anti-Judaism and Christian Orthodoxy: Ephrem's Hymns in Fourth-Century Syria and
Controlling Contested Places: Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy and coeditor of
Dealing with Difference: Christian Patterns of Response 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 of
Our Divine Double and
Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite: "No Longer I."