Nicole Wilkinson Duran is adjunct assistant professor in the Core Humanities Program at Villanova University and pastor at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania. She is co-editor of Mark in the Texts @ Contexts series (Fortress Press, 2010), author of Having Men for Dinner: Deadly Banquets and Biblical Women (2006), and a contributor to The Peoples' Bible (Fortress Press, 2008).