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title: Fortress Press Blog | Eric Vanden Eykel
description: "Eric Vanden Eykel is associate professor of religion and the Forrest S.   Williams Teaching Chair in the Humanities at Ferrum College. He is the author of  \"But Their Faces Were Looking Up: Author and Reader in the Protoevangelium of James\" (2016) and is a general editor of the Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies. He lives in Roanoke, Virginia."
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