Associate Professor of Religion, Ferrum College
Eric M. Vanden Eykel is Associate Professor of Religion at Ferrum College in Virginia. His area of research is early Christian Apocryphal Literature, with a special focus on texts and traditions about the infancies and childhoods of Jesus and Mary, his mother. He is currently writing a book on the Magi in the Gospel of Matthew.
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Dec 19, 2020 09:57 am UTC| Life
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