Michael Penn (author)

For other people named Michael Penn, see Michael Penn (disambiguation).

Michael Penn is the Teresa Hihn Moore Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University,^[1] and formerly taught at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.^[2]

His writings include the book Kissing Christians: Ritual, Community, and the Late Ancient Church (ISBN 978-0812238808).^[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]