Jeffrey S. Siker is professor of biblical studies at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. The founding chair of the Early Jewish?Christian Relations section of the SBL, he is the author of Jesus, Sin, and Perfection in Early Christianity (2015), Scripture and Ethics: Twentieth-Century Portraits (1996), and Disinheriting the Jews: Abraham in Early Christian Controversy (1991). He has written numerous articles, and he is also the editor of Homosexuality and Religion: An Encyclopedia (2006) and Homosexuality in the Church: Both Sides of the Debate (1994). An ordained Presbyterian minister (PCUSA), Siker and his wife reside in Los Angeles.