Mitzi J. Smith is associate professor of New Testament and early Christian studies at Ashland Theological Seminary, Detroit. She has contributed to The Women s Bible Commentary, Onesimus Our Brother (Fortress Press, 2012), and True to Our Native Land (Fortress Press, 2007), and written The Construction of the Other in Acts of the Apostles.
Jayachitra Lalitha is associate professor of New Testament, dean of women s studies and co-ordinator of Church Women Centre of Tamilnadu Theological Seminary, Madurai, India.