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Michael Penn is an assistant professor of religion at Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts.
His writings include the book Kissing Christians: Ritual, Community, and the Late Ancient Church. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship and other grants for studies of the Syriac Christians and their relationship to Islam. He was quoted in USA Today regarding the veracity of the Gospel of Judas.
Penn's courses at Mt. Holyoke include "What Didn't Make It into the Bible" and "Sex and the Early Church". Penn studied molecular biology and was a debater at Princeton University, then received his Ph.D. from Duke University. He attended Pinewood High School in California, from which he graduated in 1989.
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