Prof. Patricia D. Ahearne-Kroll is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Religions and Cultures at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Aseneth of Egypt: The Composition of a Jewish Narrative (Society of Biblical Literature, 2020) and the translation and commentary of “Joseph and Aseneth” in Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture (The University of Nebraska Press, 2013). She has also written on pseudepigrapha and Jewish Greek literature from the Hellenistic period. Her current research focuses on religious practices in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods and how these practices operated in terms of political power and identity formation.