Michael Penn is the Teresa Hihn Moore Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University, and formerly taught at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.
His writings include the book Kissing Christians: Ritual, Community, and the Late Ancient Church ().Bethany Pledge, "Kiss and Tell the Gospel: Michael Penn explains what the early church meant by the "holy kiss." Christianity Today, March 21, 2006. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship and other grants for studies of the Syriac Christians and their relationship to Islam.Rich Barlow, "Christian-Muslim history not all hostile", The Boston Globe, June 9, 2007 (pay site), reprint available at Islam Daily. He was quoted in USA Today regarding the veracity of the Gospel of Judas.Dan Vergano and Cathy Lynn Grossman, "Long-lost gospel of Judas recasts 'traitor'", USA Today, April 6, 2006.
Penn's courses at Mount Holyoke included "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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External links Faculty profile at Stanford University