Michael Penn (author)
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His writings include the book Kissing Christians: Ritual, Community, and the Late Ancient Church (Template:ISBN).[3] He received a Guggenheim Fellowship and other grants for studies of the Syriac Christians and their relationship to Islam.[4] He was quoted in USA Today regarding the veracity of the Gospel of Judas.[5]
Penn's courses at Mount Holyoke included "What Didn't Make It into the Bible"[2] 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.[1] He attended Pinewood High School in California, from which he graduated in 1989.[6]
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- ↑ Bethany Pledge, "Kiss and Tell the Gospel: Michael Penn explains what the early church meant by the "holy kiss." Christianity Today, March 21, 2006.
- ↑ Rich Barlow, "Christian-Muslim history not all hostile", The Boston Globe, June 9, 2007 (pay site), reprint Template:Webarchive available at Islam Daily.
- ↑ Dan Vergano and Cathy Lynn Grossman, "Long-lost gospel of Judas recasts 'traitor'", USA Today, April 6, 2006.
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