Richard A. Horsley is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and the Study of Religion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, emeritus. His numerous publications include these works from Cascade: You Shall not Bow Down and Serve: The Political Economic Projects of Jesus and Paul (2021), Jesus and Magic (2014), Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing (2013), After Apocalyptic and Wisdom (with Patrick A. Tiller, 2012), Wisdom and Spiritual Transcendence at Corinth (2008), and Empowering the People (forthcoming).