George L. Parsenios (PhD, Yale University) is associate professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of "Departure and Consolation: The Johannine Farewell Discourses in Light of Greco-Roman Literature" and "Rhetoric and Drama in the Johannine Lawsuit Motif". His teaching and research explore the interaction of early Christianity with classical literature and the interpretation of the New Testament in the early church.