Dr. Chance Bonar
@chancebonar.bsky.social
Advisor, teacher, and writer
Researching ancient Christianity, slavery, authorship, antisemitism, and the literature of the ancient Mashriq
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http://chancebonar.com
Books: https://bit.ly/3R8LXbo & https://bit.ly/4iMBSwy
Researching ancient Christianity, slavery, authorship, antisemitism, and the literature of the ancient Mashriq
Cat dad | 🏳️🌈
http://chancebonar.com
Books: https://bit.ly/3R8LXbo & https://bit.ly/4iMBSwy
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Dr. Chance Bonar
@chancebonar.bsky.social
· Sep 19
God, Slavery, and Early Christianity
Cambridge Core - History of Religion - God, Slavery, and Early Christianity
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The digital version of God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is officially out! If you're interested in ancient Mediterranean slavery's effects on Christian thought and practice, this is for you.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Our annual Loeb tree is up! It's topped with a 3D print of a 3rd century BCE terracotta figure housed in the library @palaeofuturist.bsky.social sketchfab.com/3d-models/la...
December 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Our annual Loeb tree is up! It's topped with a 3D print of a 3rd century BCE terracotta figure housed in the library @palaeofuturist.bsky.social sketchfab.com/3d-models/la...
🚨 EXTREMELY ASSIGNABLE 🚨 scholarship on androgyny as the path to salvation™
Many thanks to the reviewers for their careful reading and feedback.
Reviewer #2 remarked that the article “is extremely assignable for both undergraduate and graduate classes,” and I believe that one should unfailingly follow the advice of Reviewer #2, despite their questionable reputation.
Reviewer #2 remarked that the article “is extremely assignable for both undergraduate and graduate classes,” and I believe that one should unfailingly follow the advice of Reviewer #2, despite their questionable reputation.
a man wearing a pink suit and glasses says it 's extremely hot
ALT: a man wearing a pink suit and glasses says it 's extremely hot
media.tenor.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
🚨 EXTREMELY ASSIGNABLE 🚨 scholarship on androgyny as the path to salvation™
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Proofs Day for “Sisters but not Women?” in the Eighteenth-Century Studies special issue on Women’s Agency!
Featuring: The prelapsarian androgynous Adam, Sister Marcella who “proved by example that a man’s spirit could dwell in a woman’s body,” and the salvific Gott-mann-weiblichen licht-leib
Featuring: The prelapsarian androgynous Adam, Sister Marcella who “proved by example that a man’s spirit could dwell in a woman’s body,” and the salvific Gott-mann-weiblichen licht-leib
December 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Proofs Day for “Sisters but not Women?” in the Eighteenth-Century Studies special issue on Women’s Agency!
Featuring: The prelapsarian androgynous Adam, Sister Marcella who “proved by example that a man’s spirit could dwell in a woman’s body,” and the salvific Gott-mann-weiblichen licht-leib
Featuring: The prelapsarian androgynous Adam, Sister Marcella who “proved by example that a man’s spirit could dwell in a woman’s body,” and the salvific Gott-mann-weiblichen licht-leib
🌟 proofs day 🌟 for “Victim Blaming and Slut Shaming in Exegesis on the Soul” with Harvard Theological Review!
December 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
🌟 proofs day 🌟 for “Victim Blaming and Slut Shaming in Exegesis on the Soul” with Harvard Theological Review!
This afternoon’s task: figure out German, Italian, and Turkish email etiquette to request image permissions 🫡
December 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
This afternoon’s task: figure out German, Italian, and Turkish email etiquette to request image permissions 🫡
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In the last year, Israel averaged nearly two daily attacks on Syria and grabbed more land in the occupied Golan Heights.
Israel attacked Syria more than 600 times over the past year
In the last year, Israel averaged nearly two daily attacks on Syria and grabbed more land in the occupied Golan Heights.
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December 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
In the last year, Israel averaged nearly two daily attacks on Syria and grabbed more land in the occupied Golan Heights.
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Lovely to see this out (in FirstView): "Beyond gay history month: queering the past with ‘Queering the Past(s)’" (tinyurl.com/4vrskdw2), my new article in the Journal of Classics Teaching about using resources from queeringthepasts.com to provide LGBTQ+ education in [1/2]
Beyond gay history month: queering the past with ‘Queering the Past(s)’ | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
Beyond gay history month: queering the past with ‘Queering the Past(s)’
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December 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Lovely to see this out (in FirstView): "Beyond gay history month: queering the past with ‘Queering the Past(s)’" (tinyurl.com/4vrskdw2), my new article in the Journal of Classics Teaching about using resources from queeringthepasts.com to provide LGBTQ+ education in [1/2]
I wonder why NPR won’t say who killed Gazan students who were planning to seek educational asylum in Canada
www.npr.org/2025/12/06/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/06/n...
Gaza students killed while waiting for visas to study abroad
Gaza students with scholarships to Canada say visa delays have left many stranded, and some were killed waiting to leave.
www.npr.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I wonder why NPR won’t say who killed Gazan students who were planning to seek educational asylum in Canada
www.npr.org/2025/12/06/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/06/n...
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“The latest educator removed from the classroom allegedly told students they would be excused for attending a Friday protest in support of a transgender instructor who was suspended for accurately grading a paper.”
www.advocate.com/news/second-...
www.advocate.com/news/second-...
Another University of Oklahoma instructor suspended in biblical psychology paper grading controversy
The university is investigating whether the second instructor engaged in "viewpoint discrimination."
www.advocate.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“The latest educator removed from the classroom allegedly told students they would be excused for attending a Friday protest in support of a transgender instructor who was suspended for accurately grading a paper.”
www.advocate.com/news/second-...
www.advocate.com/news/second-...
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Folks, friends, I hate doing this but it’s tight around here these days and if you’re in the Christmas spirit and have some coins to spare a very broke seminarian, any bit helps!
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November 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Folks, friends, I hate doing this but it’s tight around here these days and if you’re in the Christmas spirit and have some coins to spare a very broke seminarian, any bit helps!
@Talique-Taylor (Venmo)
$TaliqueRTaylor (cashapp)
@Talique-Taylor (Venmo)
$TaliqueRTaylor (cashapp)
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Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.
December 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.
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The scholasticide, along with all the others, was intentional
“In recent days, Ms Amsi's team was able to use heavy equipment to uncover more badly damaged manuscripts. She says it is now clear that the library's archive - seen as an invaluable record of Palestinian history, with many Ottoman records - was totally burned.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Like first aid for manuscripts': Recovery work begins at Gaza's war-damaged heritage sites
Palestinians are clearing rubble from archaeological sites, but restoration is hampered by Israeli restrictions on building materials.
www.bbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The scholasticide, along with all the others, was intentional
“In recent days, Ms Amsi's team was able to use heavy equipment to uncover more badly damaged manuscripts. She says it is now clear that the library's archive - seen as an invaluable record of Palestinian history, with many Ottoman records - was totally burned.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Like first aid for manuscripts': Recovery work begins at Gaza's war-damaged heritage sites
Palestinians are clearing rubble from archaeological sites, but restoration is hampered by Israeli restrictions on building materials.
www.bbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
“In recent days, Ms Amsi's team was able to use heavy equipment to uncover more badly damaged manuscripts. She says it is now clear that the library's archive - seen as an invaluable record of Palestinian history, with many Ottoman records - was totally burned.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship is in fact bad because neurodivergent people participating in technofascism will not save us. Latest for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The problem with Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship
Critics have accused the company of being technofascist.
www.motherjones.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship is in fact bad because neurodivergent people participating in technofascism will not save us. Latest for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Hello my friends, i am in need of an emergency operation on my ear, since i was a child i have had hearing loss, they will implant a device so i can hear
it will cost 1500 NIS, please help me, if you cant help your shares are appreciated
it will cost 1500 NIS, please help me, if you cant help your shares are appreciated
December 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Hello my friends, i am in need of an emergency operation on my ear, since i was a child i have had hearing loss, they will implant a device so i can hear
it will cost 1500 NIS, please help me, if you cant help your shares are appreciated
it will cost 1500 NIS, please help me, if you cant help your shares are appreciated
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If you or someone you know is a scholar of color who studies religion, here's a great opportunity:
louisville-institute.org/programs-gra...
louisville-institute.org/programs-gra...
First Book Grant for Scholars of Color - Louisville Institute
First Book Grant for Scholars of Color assists early career, non-tenured religion scholars of color to complete a major research project with grants up to $55,000..
louisville-institute.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
If you or someone you know is a scholar of color who studies religion, here's a great opportunity:
louisville-institute.org/programs-gra...
louisville-institute.org/programs-gra...
Obsessed every month with the social justice kittens calendar
December 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Obsessed every month with the social justice kittens calendar
This is something a lot of us have been talking about in academic circles.
Men over the last few decades have greatly benefitted from universities seeking “gender balance” in their student populations, and tend to fare much worse in academic-merit-based college admissions
Men over the last few decades have greatly benefitted from universities seeking “gender balance” in their student populations, and tend to fare much worse in academic-merit-based college admissions
Trump’s attack on DEI may hurt college men, particularly White men
"The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion also targets gender. The ban may impact gender balancing practices that often benefit college men."
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
"The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion also targets gender. The ban may impact gender balancing practices that often benefit college men."
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Trump’s attack on DEI may hurt college men, particularly White men
The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion also targets gender. The ban may impact gender balancing practices that often benefit college men.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:09 AM
This is something a lot of us have been talking about in academic circles.
Men over the last few decades have greatly benefitted from universities seeking “gender balance” in their student populations, and tend to fare much worse in academic-merit-based college admissions
Men over the last few decades have greatly benefitted from universities seeking “gender balance” in their student populations, and tend to fare much worse in academic-merit-based college admissions
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Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.
Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal
Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.
Sarah’s 🧵 is spot on. It’s worrying for how it perpetuates the “happy slave” trope that even former enslaved persons like Epictetus perpetuated
(as a Stoic, Epictetus was feeding right into Roman elites’ maintenance of the status quo & was discouraging the pursuit of freedom)
(as a Stoic, Epictetus was feeding right into Roman elites’ maintenance of the status quo & was discouraging the pursuit of freedom)
December 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Sarah’s 🧵 is spot on. It’s worrying for how it perpetuates the “happy slave” trope that even former enslaved persons like Epictetus perpetuated
(as a Stoic, Epictetus was feeding right into Roman elites’ maintenance of the status quo & was discouraging the pursuit of freedom)
(as a Stoic, Epictetus was feeding right into Roman elites’ maintenance of the status quo & was discouraging the pursuit of freedom)
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A new report on dietary findings in a select area of Pompeii likely inhabited by enslaved people came out in Scavi di Pompei. Many newspapers are now running w/a headline about Roman slaves “eating better” than free Romans. pompeiisites.org/e-journal-de... Let’s discuss why this is problematic
December 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A new report on dietary findings in a select area of Pompeii likely inhabited by enslaved people came out in Scavi di Pompei. Many newspapers are now running w/a headline about Roman slaves “eating better” than free Romans. pompeiisites.org/e-journal-de... Let’s discuss why this is problematic
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“If ancient, proto-white, proto-western slavery was benign, maybe ours was too.” — some shithead opinion editor, probably
2. This is an extremely small sample size in a house in Pompeii. And yet many headlines are universalizing in order to say ALL Roman slaves ate better than the freeborn. We know that this is absolutely not true.
Look at this Reuters headline:
Look at this Reuters headline:
December 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“If ancient, proto-white, proto-western slavery was benign, maybe ours was too.” — some shithead opinion editor, probably
After the FIFA peace prize news, I’m waiting to see if other associations will follow suit
The AHA peace prize for genocide deniers, for example
The AHA peace prize for genocide deniers, for example
December 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
After the FIFA peace prize news, I’m waiting to see if other associations will follow suit
The AHA peace prize for genocide deniers, for example
The AHA peace prize for genocide deniers, for example