Join Dr. Melisa Ortiz Berry for this season's PodClass, "Who is Jesus?" Tune in as we ask scholars, ministers, and Bible experts the same question and receive a variety of perspectives! Dr. Berry has designed this podcast class, or "PodClass," like one of her own Bible classes. Go to⁠ www.cldm.online. for a copy of this semester's syllabus to see all of the shows/classes and find supporting materials.

Rev. Dr. Jacquelyn E. Winston is a patristics scholar, with an emphasis on the history of the first five centuries of the Christian Church. Her areas of interest include the uses of religious rhetoric to marginalize “the other,” cultural and religious constructions of identity, martyrdom and a theology of suffering, Jewish Christian relations, and material cultural analysis.

She earned both her M.A. in Pastoral Studies with an emphasis in Urban Ministries and her M.Div. from Azusa Pacific and received her Ph.D. in History of Christianity from Claremont Graduate University.

Her publications include The Assassin of a Prophetic Imagination: Imperialistic Rhetoric in Ancient Rome and Contemporary America (2012), and Listening to the African Witness (2013).