Cain Hope Felder, Ph.D., is Professor of New Testament Language & Literature and Editor of The Journal of Religious Thought at the Howard University School of Divinity in Washington, D.C.  He currently serves as Chair of the President's Imple-mentation Panel for the Howard University African American Heritage & Cultural Center.  He has been on Howard's faculty since 1981, having come to Washington from Princeton Theological Seminary where he taught as a member of the Department of Biblical Studies (1978-1981).