Shanell T SmithThe Reverend Shanell T. Smith is a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA), and Associate Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, CT. She is the author of The Woman Babylon and the Marks of Empire (Frtress Press, 2014) and contributor to Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in the New Testament (forthcoming). She lives in Hartford, CT. Read More Read Less