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The Shepherd of Hermas was possibly the most widely read and popular noncanonical Christian writing from the first centuries of the Common Era. It is dated to the late first to second century CE and is the longest work in the collection known as the Apostolic Fathers. In recent years new attention has been directed toward this important work, driven in part by new questions posed from a variety of disciplinary perspectives as well as a growing interest in the study of experience in ancient religion, and facilitated by a new critical edition of the text edited by Bart Ehrman in the Loeb Classical Library.¹ It would not be an exaggeration to say that the Shepherd is enjoying a renaissance in scholarly attention and study. The essays collected in this volume began as a panel of papers delivered in a joint session of the Religious Experience in Antiquity program unit and the Inventing Christianity program unit held at the 2018 meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. Harry O. Maier responded to the papers presented at that meeting by Giovanni Bazzana, Aldo Tagliabue, Jason Combs, and Angela Kim Harkins. These studies constitute the core of this volume, to which additional essays were invited. The volume has been organized under three thematic headings: (1) The Shepherd, the Self, and Subjectivity; (2) Visions and Experiences of the Divine; and (3) Experiencing the Shepherd as Text.