Christy Cobb is associate professor of Christianity at the University of Denver. She is the author of the book Slavery, Gender, Truth, and Power and the co-editor of Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts. She has published multiple articles on ancient slavery and focuses especially on issues of gender and sexuality in early Christianity.

Katherine A. Shaner is associate professor of New Testament at Wake Forest University School of Divinity. She is the author of Enslaved Leadership in Early Christianity. She has also edited a volume of her students' work, Shouts and Whispers, aimed at mainline church communities and individuals who struggle with injustices in biblical texts. An ordained Lutheran (ELCA) pastor, she preaches and teaches regularly in churches across the nation.