Jamal-Dominique Hopkins (PhD, University of Manchester) is associate professor of Christian Scriptures and director of the Black Church Studies Program at George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University, in Waco, Texas. Prior to this, he was the founding dean of Dickerson-Green Theological Seminary at Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina. Hopkins is the author of Cultic Spiritualization: Religious Sacrifice in the Dead Sea Scrolls.