Ronald F. Hock (“The Favored One”) is professor of religion at the University of Southern California. He is a specialist on the social and intellectual world of the New Testament. His translation of the Infancy Gospels of James and Thomas was published by Polebridge Press in 1995. David R. Cartlidge, who selected the pictures and wrote the captions for “The Favored One”, is Beeson Professor Emeritus of Religion at Maryville College, in Maryville, Tennessee. His book Art and the Christian Apocrypha is forthcoming from Routledge. Independent scholar Pamela Tamarkin Reis (“Genesis as Rashomon”) has been published in the Journal […]
