William Arnal is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1997, under the direction of John Kloppenborg. His previous books include Whose Historical Jesus? (co-edited with Michel Desjardins; Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997) and Jesus and the Village Scribes (Fortress, 2001). Arnal's articles have appeared in Harvard Theological Review, the Journal of Biblical Literature, and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.