Bruce W. Longenecker (Ph.D. University of Durham) is Graduate Professor of Religion and W. W. Melton Chair in the Baylor University Department of Religion. He is the author or editor of numerous books including  In Stone and Story: Early Christianity in the Roman World (2020), The Cross before Constantine: The Early Life of a Christian Symbol (2015), Remember the Poor: Paul, Poverty, and The Greco-Roman World (2010), Rhetoric at the Boundaries: The Art and Theology of New Testament Chain-Link Transitions (2005), and Luke, Paul and the Graeco-Roman World (2002).