Dr. L. Stephanie Cobb is the George and Sallie Cutchin Camp Professor of Bible in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Richmond and a specialist in early Christian martyrdom narratives, particularly their gender dynamics and their role in shaping Christian identity, with special attention to figures such as Perpetua and Felicitas in North African Christianity. She is the author of Dying to Be Men: Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts (2008) and Divine Deliverance: Pain and Painlessness in Early Christian Martyr Texts (2016), and the co-editor, with Andrew S. Jacobs, of The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas in Late Antiquity (2021). She has also published widely in leading journals and is currently writing Dr. L. Stephanie Cobb is the George and Sallie Cutchin Camp Professor of Bible in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Richmond and a specialist in early Christian martyrdom narratives, particularly their gender dynamics and their role in shaping Christian identity, with special attention to figures such as Perpetua and Felicitas in North African Christianity. She is the author of Dying to Be Men: Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts (2008) and Divine Deliverance: Pain and Painlessness in Early Christian Martyr Texts (2016), and the co-editor, with Andrew S. Jacobs, of The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas in Late Antiquity (2021). She has also published widely in leading journals and is currently writing Gods at War: Piety and Persecution in the Age of the Martyrs....more