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Stephen J. Shoemaker is professor of religious studies at the University of Oregon. He is the author of numerous articles on Mary in early Christianity, as well as the books The Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary’s Dormition and Assumption (Oxford University Press, 2002); The Death of a Prophet: The End of Muhammad’s Life and the Beginnings of Islam (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012); and Maximus the Confessor, The Life of the Virgin (a new translation with introduction and notes, Yale University Press, 2012).