Lily Vuong is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Central Washington University. Her area of research is in Early Christianity with a special interest in New Testament Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal writings. She is the author of Gender and Purity in the Protevangelium of James (Mohr Siebeck, 2013) and co-editor of Religious Competition in the Third Century CE: Jews, Christians, and the Greco-Roman World (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014) with Nathaniel DesRosiers and Jordan Rosenblum. She is presently working on a collected volume on religious competition (SBL WGRW Series) and a monograph on the reception history of the Protevangelium of James and Syriac Christianity.