Cain Hope Felder is Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at the Howard University School of Divinity in Washington, DC, and Editor of The Journal of Religious Thought. He can read Hebrew, Latin, and Greek; skills he brought to bear in writing the Jubilee Legacy Bible (published by Broadman and Holman, Nashville, Tennessee) which documents the African presence in the Old and New Testment. He is also an editor of The African American Jubilee Bible (American Bible Society, 1995). Felder is an ordained Methodist minister who served as pastor of Grace United Methodist church in New York City. He holds a Ph.D in Biblical Languages and Literature from Columbia University, a Diploma of theology from Oxford University in England, and Master's of Divinity and of Philosophy from Howard.