Nathaniel Deutsch is Professor of Literature and History at the University
of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Guardians of the Gate: Angelic Vice Regency in Late Antiquity (1999) and The Gnostic Imagination: Gnosticism, Mandaeism, and Merkabah Mysticism (1995), and the coeditor with Y. Chireau, of Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism (2000).