Jennifer Knust is Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University. She specializes in early Christian history and the religions of the ancient Mediterranean. Author of To Cast the First Stone: The Transmission of a Gospel Story (with Tommy Wasserman, 2018), Unprotected Texts: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions about Sex and Desire (2011), and Abandoned to Lust: Sexual Slander and Ancient Christianity (2005), she studies early Christian texts, their contexts, and their receptions, with particular focus on rhetoric and gendered discourse and the ethics of interpretation.