William Loader, FAHA, is a Professorial Research Fellow of the Australian Research Council, based at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia. He is engaged in research on attitudes toward sexuality in Judaism and Christianity in the Hellenistic Greco-Roman Era. His recent publications include: Sexuality and the Jesus Tradition (2005); The Septuagint, Sexuality, and the New Testament (2004); Jesus' Attitude towards the Law: A Study of the Gospels (2002); and Jesus and the Fundamentalism of his Day (2001).