Elizabeth "Libbie" Schrader Polczer is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Villanova University, having recently defended her PhD in Early Christianity and New Testament at Duke University. Her studies focus on textual criticism, Mary Magdalene, and the Gospel of John. After writing a song about Mary Magdalene, Elizabeth enrolled in the M.A. program at General Theological Seminary. Her interest in the text of John's Gospel culminated in the publication of her Master's thesis in the Harvard Theological Review. She has published additional peer-reviewed papers in the Journal of Biblical Literature, TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism, and The Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin. To contact Elizabeth directly: elizabeth@elizabethschrader.com or on Twitter at @libbieschrader Diana Butler Bass, Ph.D., is an award-winning author, popular speaker, inspiring preacher, and one of America’s most trusted commentators on religion and contemporary spirituality. She holds a doctorate in religious studies from Duke University and is the author of eleven books. She also writes for numerous magazines and sites. Bass also has a weekly blog called The Cottage. There is also a wonderful podcast In Search of highlights Elizabeth Schrader Polczer and Diana Butler Bass talking about the implications of Polczer’s research on Mary Magdalene and what it means for our own moment in Christianity, as well as how these two scholars from radically different fields combined powers to get Mary’s story out there. A transcript of this episode can be found https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q8SAiMq1QPDU7etWRNHpVWcLXz-x-4q01GVgimWMbEw/edit.
