April DeConick 
Isla Carroll & Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies
Sex and the Serpent: Why Sexual Conflicts of the Early Church Still Matter
DeConick's current project explores the sexual and gender landscapes of
early Christianity, identifying what the conflicts were, what was at
stake, and how they were resolved, explaining how and "why women's
leadership was erased from the Christian tradition." She argues that
this knowledge will be significant to today's Christian church. In
Spring 2010, she organizes a conference, "Histories of the Hidden God:
Mysticism in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity."
