Christopher A. Frilingos is Professor of Religious Studies at Michigan State University. He writes and teaches about biblical literature and early Christianity. He studied at Greensboro College in North Carolina, the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and earned a PhD in Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of the books Jesus, Mary, and Joseph: Family Trouble in the Infancy Gospels and Spectacles of Empire: Monsters, Martyrs, and the Book of Revelation, both published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. He has also written for Biblical Archaeology Review.