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Melissa Harl Sellew is a Professor Emerita of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota.

Education
Sellew holds a Th.D. in New Testament and Christian Origins from Harvard Divinity School, where she also earned her M.Div. She completed her undergraduate studies at Macalester College, obtaining a B.A. in History and Classics.

Research work
Sellew's academic focus primarily centers on 'apocryphal' texts, including but not limited to the Acts of Paul and Thecla, as well as the Gospel of Thomas. She currently employs the perspective of transgender hermeneutics in her research. Furthermore, she has delved into discussions related to the oxyrhynchus sayings of Jesus, among various other Christian theological and ontological topics. Beyond her scholarly endeavors, Dr. Sellew actively contributes her expertise by serving on the boards of Gender Justice, a legal and political advocacy organization, and her local congregation, First Congregational Church of Minnesota (UCC), situated in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood of Minneapolis.

Selected publications

 * Interior Monologue as a Narrative Device in the Parables of Luke: Sellew, Melissa, Journal of Biblical Literature, 1992.
 * The Hundredfold Reward: Martyrdom and Sexual Renunciation in Christian North Africa. Forthcoming in the series Writings from the Greco-Roman World. Co-published at Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature.
 * Pauline Conversations in Context: Essays in Honor of Calvin J. Roetzel, Co-Editor (with Janice Capel Anderson and Claudia Setzer). Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series, no. 221. London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002. 295 pp.
 * "Thomas Christianity: Scholars in Quest of a Community." Pp 11-35 in: The Apocryphal Acts of Thomas (ed. Jan N. Bremmer; Leuven: íˆditions Peeters, 2001).
 * "An Early Coptic Witness to the Dormitio Mariae at Yale: P.CtYBR inv. 1778 Revisited." Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 37 (2000) 37-70 + plates 2-4.