Andrea Lorenzo Molinari, Ph.D., is the President of Blessed Edmund Rice School for Pastoral Ministry, a satellite location for theological studies in connection with Barry University (Miami, FL), where he holds the rank of associate professor. He received his Ph.D. from Marquette University (New Testament and Early Christianity, 1996).

He is author of four books, The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles (NHC 6.1) (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 2000); "I never knew the man": The Coptic Act of Peter (Papyrus Berolinensis 8502.4) (Paris: Editions Peeters, 2000); Climbing the Dragon's Ladder: The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2006); and, most recently, Romans and Christians A.D. 64 (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2009). In addition, he has published a number of scholarly articles on various topics related to apocryphal acts of the apostles, the Nag Hammadi Library, and women in early Christianity, as well as a variety of popular theological pieces.