Elizabeth A. Castelli is associate professor of religion at Barnard College at Columbia University. She is the author of Imitating Paul: A Discourse of Power,coauthor of The Postmodern Bible,and editor of several books, including Women, Gender, and Religion: A Reader.She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Academy of Religionand is the editor of a new journal, Postscripts: Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds.In 2003 and 2004 she was the senior research scholar at the Center for Religion and Media at New York University.