Nicole Wilkinson Duran is currently the New Testament series editor for the Texts@Contexts series. She is the author of Having Men for Dinner: Deadly Banquets and Biblical Women and The Power of Disorder: Ritual Themes in Mark"s Passion Narrative, as well as various articles on Hebrew Bible and New Testament topics. She served on the editorial board of The Global Bible Commentary and has been editor and coeditor of a number of other collections of essays. She is currently an independent scholar outside of Philadelphia.