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Chance E. Bonar
2626 Harvard Yard Mail Center, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 651-829-1267 | [email protected] | http://chancebonar.hcommons.org/
EDUCATION
Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University: Cambridge, MA In progress Committee on the Study of Religion: New Testament and Early Christianity Advisor: Karen L. King Dissertation: Enslaved to God: Slavery and the Virtuous Life in the Shepherd of Hermas Secondary Field: Religion, Ethics, and Politics
A.M., Harvard University: Cambridge, MA 2019 Committee on the Study of Religion: New Testament and Early Christianity
M.A.R., Yale Divinity School: New Haven, CT 2017 Bible (New Testament/Early Christianity)
B.A., St. Olaf College: Northfield, MN 2015 Religion, Classics, Ancient Studies; magna cum laude and distinction in Religion
EMPLOYMENT
Harvard Divinity School 2020-1 Instructor on Coptic
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles: 2020 “3 Apocryphal Apocalypse of John: A Byzantine Question-and-Answer Dialogue.” With Tony Burke. Le Muséon 133.3-4 (2020): 397-454. DOI: 10.2143/MUS.133.3.3288873
2018 “P.CtYBR inv. 1233: Contract from Oxyrhynchus Issued by a Woman.” The Bulletin for the American Society of Papyrologists 55 (2018): 39-44. DOI: 10.2143/ BASP.55.0.3285010
Book Chapters: 2020 “Third Apocryphal Apocalypse of John.” With Tony Burke and Slavomír Čéplö. Pages 423-460 in New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures. Vol. 2. Edited by Tony Burke. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2020.
Encyclopedia Entries: 2019 “Homosexuality (in Ancient Greek and Roman Religion).” Pages 52-53 in Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History. Edited by Susan De Gaia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2019.
2019 “Diana.” Pages 33-35 in Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History. Edited by Susan De Gaia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2019.
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2021 Review of Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld, Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania, 2019. In Ancient Jew Review.
2020 Review of Jean-Luc Fournet. The Rise of Coptic: Egyptian versus Greek in Late Antiquity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. In Ancient Jew Review.
2018 Review of Tony Burke, ed. Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions: Writing Ancient and Modern Christian Apocrypha. Proceedings from the 2015 York University Christian Apocrypha Symposium. Foreword by Andrew Gregory. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade, 2017. In Vigiliae Christianae. 72.1 (2018): 103-106.
2018 Review of Celene Lillie. The Rape of Eve: The Transformation of Roman Ideology in Three Early Christian Retellings of Genesis. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2015. In Reading Religion.
Manuscripts in Submission: Spring 2021 “A Surety Contract and Letter from Early Islamic Hermopolis.” In Coptica Parisina. Textes et documents de la 6e université d'été de papyrologie copte (P. Sorb. Copt.). Edited by Anne Boud’hors and Alain Delattre.
2021 “John Chrysostom’s Homily Against the Jews 8 as a Response to Antiochene Jewish Healthcare.” Under consideration at Journal of Early Christian Studies.
2021 Translation of Alkier, Stefan. The New Testament. Translated with David Moffitt. Waco, TX: Baylor University. German Original: Neues Testament. UTB Basics. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2010.
Winter 2021 “Danaids and Dirces in Roman Corinth: Sexualized Violence and Imperial Spectacle in 1 Clement.” In Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts. Edited by Christy Cobb and Eric Vanden Eykel. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2021.
2022 “Dialogue between Jesus and the Devil.” In New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures. With Slavomír Čéplö. Vol. 3. Edited by Tony Burke. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2022.
Online Resources: 2020 Entries on “Valentinians” and “Marcionites.” The Database of Religious History. University of British Columbia.
2017-20 e-Clavis: Christian Apocrypha (https://www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-christian-apocrypha/): Entries on Questions of Bartholomew; 3 Apocryphal Apocalypse of John; Wisdom of Jesus Christ; Epistles of Paul and Seneca; Tiburtine Sibyl; Dialogue between Jesus and the Devil.
Podcast Episodes: 2020 “Adolf Deissmann, Light from the Ancient East.” With Ian Mills. New Testament Review. October 6.
2020 “Michael Williams, Rethinking Gnosticism: An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category.” With Ian Mills. New Testament Review. March 2.
Other Publications: 2020 “‘Jesus is My Vaccine’ has a Millennium-Long History Rooted in Antisemitism.” Religion Dispatches. May 19.
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HONORS & AWARDS
2020 Teaching Certificate, Bok Center, Harvard University
2020 Summer Research Grant, GSAS Graduate Student Council, Harvard University
2020 Conference organization grants ($4400), Harvard Divinity School & the Graduate School of the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, Boston College* [Cancelled due to COVID-19]
2020 Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Office of Undergraduate Education, Harvard College
2019 Short-Term Predoctoral Residency, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
2018 Gochman Dean’s Fund for Innovation and Development, Harvard University
2018 Jens Aubrey Westengard Summer Research and Travel Grant, Harvard University
2018 Graduate Summer and Research Fellowship, Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University
2017-20 Harvard University Fellowship, Harvard University
2016 Two Brothers Fellowship, Yale Divinity School
2016 Dig Scholarship, Biblical Archaeology Society
2016 Albert Clark Award, Theta Alpha Kappa
2015-7 Pidcock Family Scholarship, Yale Divinity School
2015-7 Yale Divinity Scholarship, Yale Divinity School
2015 Graduate Fellowship Award, Theta Alpha Kappa
2015 Junia Award, St. Olaf College
2014 Manson A. Stewart Scholarship, CAMWS
2011-5 Presidential Scholarship, St. Olaf College
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Conferences Organized: 2020 New Testament and Early Christianity Day. Co-organized with Alexander D’Alisera. Boston College. April 3.* [Cancelled due to COVID-19]
Conference Presentations: 2021 “The Competing Passions Within God’s Enslaved in the Shepherd of Hermas.” Culture, Religion and Society – Interdisciplinary Studies in the Ancient World (CRASIS). University of Groningen. March 11.
2020 “The Place of the Dialogue Between Jesus and the Devil in the History of the Antichrist.” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. November 30.
2020 “The Limits of Curiosity and Knowledge of the Future in the Shepherd of Hermas.” Religion & the Future. Boston University. Boston, MA. October 18.
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2020 “‘This is what physicians do’: John Chrysostom’s Homily against the Jews 8 as a Response to Antiochene Jewish Healthcare.” The North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. May 21.* [Postponed to May 2021 due to COVID-19]
2018 “An Introduction to 3 Apocryphal Apocalypse of John.” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. November 17.
2018 “A Palestinian Jesus: The Jewish Messiah in Contemporary Conflict.” Ways of Knowing. Harvard Divinity School. Cambridge, MA. October 27.
2017 “To Be Greek or Not To Be Greek?: Pagans, Violence, and Egyptian Christian Identity in Shenoute of Atripe.” New England and Eastern Canada Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Yale Divinity School. New Haven, CT. March 31.
2015 “‘They did not belong to us’: Johannine Language and Social Identity.” Upper Midwest Society of Biblical Literature Regional Meeting. Luther Seminary. St. Paul, MN. April.
2014 “Josephus and Herod: Men of Two Cities.” Upper Midwest of Biblical Literature Regional Meeting. Luther Seminary. St. Paul, MN. April.
2013 “The Macedonian Alexander: Medizing or Medized?” Historiography and History: Greece, Macedon and the Near East from 500-31 BCE. Athens, Greece. July.
Panels: 2021 “The 1776 Report and The Creation of the American Heretic.” Webinar on Interpretive Ethics – Who’s Reading Who? Virginia Polytechnic Institute and University. January 28.
2020 “Labor and Advocacy: Graduate Students and Contingent Faculty in Biblical Studies.” American Academic of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. December 1.
2019 “Response on Ancient Sources and Timely Topics.” New Testament and Early Christian Studies Day. Yale Divinity School. New Haven, CT. April 5.
2017 “A Conversation on The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife.” Moderator for Ariel Sabar. Archaia: Yale Program for the Study of Ancient and Premodern Cultures and Societies. Ancient Societies Workshop. May 5.
Departmental Talks and Public Outreach: 2020 “Greek Papyrology and Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean.” Guest Lecture, Introduction to Papyrological Greek. University of Chicago & The Oriental Institute. Chicago, IL. Sept. 9.
2020 “The Gospel of Thomas.” Guest Lecture, Introduction to the New Testament. Harvard Divinity School. Cambridge, MA. April 13.
2019 “Johann Jacob Zimmermann: Left Behind in the 17th Century.” Guest Lecture, Stories from the End of the World. Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. October 10.
2018 “The History of Advent and the Coming of Christ in Luke 3.” St. John the Evangelist Church. Cambridge, MA. December 12.
2016 “Matthew’s Jesus, Jewish Identity, and the Gentiles.” Bethesda Fall Forums. Bethesda Lutheran Church. New Haven, CT. December 11. Chance E. Bonar curriculum vitae, p. 5
2016 “Not-So-Gnostic Pneumatic Knowledge: A Poetic Analysis of Valentinus’ Summer Harvest.” Yale Divinity Colloquium. Yale Divinity School. New Haven, CT. December 1.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Harvard University
Instructor: Elementary Coptic I (HDS 4157): Fall 2020
Elementary Coptic II (HDS 4158): Spring 2021
Teaching Fellow: Intro to Harvard History: Beyond the Three Lies (History 1636): Spring 2021
One Book, Two Religions, Many Truths (Gen Ed 1149): Spring 2021
Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion (HDS 4515): Fall 2020
Gospel of John (HDS 1522): Fall 2020
Introduction to the New Testament (HDS 1202/Religion 1400): Spring 2020
Orthodoxy and Heresy in Ancient Christianity (HDS 1700): Spring 2020
Master of Divinity Senior Seminar – Thesis Supervision (HDS 4591): Fall 2019, Spring 2020
Stories from the End of the World (Gen Ed 1001): Fall 2019
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2019-21 e-Clavis Editorial Board, North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature
2016-9 Senior Editor, Glossolalia, Yale Divinity School
COLLEGIAL SERVICE
2021 Advisory Committee, First Year Experience Office, Harvard College
2019-20 Funding Committee, GSAS Student Council, Harvard University
2018-21 Board of First-Year Advisors, Harvard College
2018-21 Representative for the Committee on the Study of Religion, GSAS Student Council, Harvard University
2018-20 Departmental Organizer, Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers
2018-21 First-Year Proctor, First Year Experience Office, Harvard College
2017-8 Non-Resident Tutor in Writing, Dunster House, Harvard University
2016-7 Student Representative, Committee for Renewal of New Testament Faculty, Yale Divinity School
2013-4 Junior Counselor (RA), Residence Life, St. Olaf College
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RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
2018-9 Research Assistant to Prof. Laura Nasrallah, Harvard Divinity School
2017 Editorial Assistant to Dr. Omer Salem, Foundation for Religious Diplomacy
2016-7 Manuscript Processing and Editorial Assistant, Center for Preservation and Conservation, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
2016-7 Research/Editorial Assistant to Prof. Harold Attridge, Yale Divinity School
2016-7 Research Assistant to Prof. Gregory Sterling, Yale Divinity School
2014-5 Greek Lab Instructor, Classics Department, St. Olaf College
2013 Classics Research Assistant, Classics Department, St. Olaf College
2013-4 Learning Consultant (Greek, Latin, Religion), Academic Support Center, St. Olaf College
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2018-21 Staff training regarding race/ethnicity, gender & sexuality in college atmospheres, suicide prevention, and academic advising. Harvard College Dean of Students Office.
2018 Sixth Summer School in Coptic Papyrology. Institut de Papyrologie de la Sorbonne.
2013 Staff training regarding student diversity, gender & sexuality, and substance abuse. St. Olaf College Residence Life.
LANGUAGES (* = can teach language)
Ancient & Medieval: Greek* (Homeric, Classical dialects, Koine, medieval) Coptic* (various dialects) Latin Syriac Biblical Hebrew
Modern: German (reading proficiency with dictionary) French (reading proficiency with dictionary) Spanish (reading proficiency with dictionary)
ARCHAEOLOGICAL WORK
2018 Preservation, Migdal/Magdala, Harvard University and Universidad Anáhuac México Sur
2016 Excavator, Huqoq Excavation Project & Field School, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
2021 The American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
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2019-21 The North American Patristics Society (NAPS)
2018-21 Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Network
2015-21 Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)
2015-21 The North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature (NASSCAL)
2013-6 Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS)
THESIS SUPERVISION
Harvard Divinity School (Master of Divinity):
Joe Pinto, “Almost No Matter What”
Steven Rizzo, “Religious Scruples: The Coloniality of Theological Anthropology in 17th-Century Lutheran Theology”
Audra Franley, “Breaking the Mary Binary: Reclaiming and Reconceptualizing the ‘Feminine Ideal’ in and through Biblical Reconstruction and Christian Goddess Spirituality”
Grace Killian, “The Anxious Chosen and the Evil Other: Security Theology in the Policy of Child Detention”
Amy Weston, “A Congregational Rule of Life”
Hannah Ozmun, “Revising Christian History: Bob Jones University Press and United States History for Christian Schools, 1982-2018”
Jarred Batchelor-Hamilton, “Visionary Experience in a Twelfth-Century Monastic Chronicle: The Production and Narration of Sacred Space in Jocelin of Brakelond’s Bury St. Edmunds”
KMarie Tejeda, “The Apostle Paul and the Holy Spirit in the Epistle to the Galatians”
Kelsey Karys, “‘Do Grapes Grow from Thornbushes?, or Does INC Christianity Have Something Valuable to Teach the North American Church?”