Nina E. Livesey is Assistant Professor of Early Christianity at the University of Oklahoma. She is an active member of Westar Institute, formerly known as the Jesus Seminar. She regularly teaches courses on biblical literature, the apostle Paul, women and religion, and religion and film. Her primary interest being early Jewish-Christian relations, she has authored Circumcision as a Malleable Symbol (2011) in addition to several articles on the subject of early Christian literature.