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Dr. Chance Bonar

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Advisor, teacher, and writer 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 · 18d

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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God, Slavery, and Early Christianity

Cambridge Core - History of Religion - God, Slavery, and Early Christianity

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 10h

Those are some impressive lobster claw mittens! I can see why they’d be dangerous

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 10h

I already had the Gen Z mullet in 1995, beating the trend by decades

Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 10h

A family member found and digitized old ole videos from my childhood, so I’ve been crying for the last hour watching myself play in the snow

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 12h

Proud of you for defending city-states’ rights 🫡

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 20h

"This book was crafted to live within any library in America. It was written by a team specializing in what is most important in good books: that it appeals to conservative politicians and that one mom on the PTA."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/fin...

Finally, a Book That Cannot Be Banned

This is a good book. It has a cover and many pages. This book is endorsed by parents and is church-friendly. It is clean and full of Grace, as in i...

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 13h

I had the same reaction when I realized that

Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 13h

While you’re at it, buy a (very affordable!) copy and start thinking more about anarchist and non-hierarchical modes of association in the ancient world.

I’ll have more to say in a month

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Radical Antiquity: Free Love Zoroastrians, Farming Pirates, and Ancient Uprisings|Paperback

“Unearthing the ancient world’s anarchist cultures, Zeichmann presents a compelling argument that authority may itself have always been the real aberration. Highly recommended” ...

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 13h

For those going to AAR/SBL in Boston next month, come join us to talk about @cbzeichmann.bsky.social’s Radical Antiquity!

AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS: CHRIS ZEICHMANN'S RADICAL ANTIQUITY: FREE LOVE ZOROASTRIANS, FARMING PIRATES, AND ANCIENT UPRISINGS

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23RD 1:00PM-3:30PM
GRAND BALLROOM B (FOURTH FLOOR), MARRIOTT COPLEY PLACE

CO-SPONSORED WITH REDESCRIBING CHRISTIAN ORIGINS SEMINAR, SBL

IN RADICAL ANTIQUITY, CHRIS ZEICHMANN CONSIDERS A WIDE VARIETY OF COMMUNITIES IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD THAT WERE ORGANIZED ANARCHICALLY, DEMONSTRATING THAT THERE IS A LONG HISTORY OF RADICAL, NON-HIERARCHICAL HUMAN COLLECTIVES. IN THE VEIN OF GRAEBER AND WENGROW'S DAWN OF EVERYTHING, BUT WRITTEN FOR A POPULAR AUDIENCE, RADICAL ANTIQUITY INVITES SCHOLARS TO REFLECT ON HOW WE CAN MAKE OUR SCHOLARSHIP ACCESSIBLE TO NON-SCHOLARLY READERS, AS WELL AS HOW OUR RESEARCH MIGHT HAVE MORE THAN AN ANTIQUARIAN RELEVANCE.

• ERIN ROBERTS, MODERATOR
• CHANCE BONAR, PANELIST (10 MINS)
• ANDREW DURDIN, PANELIST (10 MINS)
• NAOMI GOLDENBERG, PANELIST (10 MINS)
• GILLIAN LE FEVRE, PANELIST (10 MINS)
• KEVIN WING-CHUI WONG, PANELIST (10 MINS)
• RITA LESTER, PANELIST (10 MINS)
CHRISTOPER B. ZEICHMANN, RESPONSE (10 MINS)
OPEN DISCUSSION (50 MINS)

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Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 21h

It is my pleasure to share the CFP for a special issue of #ResDiffJournal guest-edited by Yusi Liu, Chris Gipson, and Najee Olya, building on the Mountaintop Coalition's panel at the SCS earlier this year. "International Scholarship in a ‘Globalized’ World?" resdifficiles.com/internationa...

International Scholarship in a ‘Globalized’ World? CFP

At the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies and the Archaeological Institute of America in Philadelphia, the Mountaintop Coalition sponsored the joint panel, “Internationa…

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 22h

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 5d

📢 Call for Applications!
The BCDSS is inviting applications for the Heinz Heinen Fellowship Program 2026/2027.

📅 Apply by Jan 10, 2026
📍 Start date: from Oct 1, 2026
👉 Full details here: buff.ly/8aH1Fy0

@unibonn.bsky.social
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A poster calling for application for Heinz Heinen Fellowships for the next academic year 2026/2027
-The deadline is on January 10, 2026

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Harrassowitz Verlag @harrassowitz-v.bsky.social · 1d

👉 NEW AND OPEN ACCESS

The book critically reappraises the history of slavery in Ethiopia, highlighting its dynamics, the domestic slave trade, legal reforms, local interpretations of slavery and abolition, and the memory of enslavement.
#openaccess

www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/isbn_9783447...

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 1d

If you haven’t already read it, “Black History at the Vassall Estate” is an incredible historical and archival project centered on enslaved persons and enslavers in Cambridge MA

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 1d

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 6d

Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 1d

YOU STEP ON IT.

You can immediately imagine at least 5 reasons why the community rightly thought that this was inadequate in 2007

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 1d

If you haven’t seen or been to the more recent memorial, it’s worth seeing: mel.virginia.edu

Home | Memorial to Enslaved Laborers

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 1d

Stumbled today onto UVA’s initial (and horribly failed) attempt to memorialize the enslaved persons forced to build and work at the university

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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 1d

I’m one of the panelists for this event. It’s open to the public if you’re interested.

Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 1d

All are invited to the first in Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series, "Turning Your Dissertation into a Book," Oct 9 at 1pm ET. Organized by our Faculty Outreach Committee with the Rutgers Ctr for Minority Serving Institutions.

Register here: https://buff.ly/UiOAr5M

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

We wanted to understand Democratic Socialists of America. So we talked to two old guys who voted for Trump. (Yes, this is literally the article.)

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 2d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 2d

This is the most amazing bit of cross-cultural mythmaking ever. I wonder if this was inspired by myths of Talos? Anyhow, I am very sorry that the secretive guild of ancient Roman robot engineers never existed, though pleased they were appropriately unionized.

Rakesh Khanna @blaftrakesh.bsky.social · 3d

When I was researching my book Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India, I learned of a 1000-year-old myth about Roman tech being used to build killer robots to guard the Buddha's remains in Pataliputra, and a Hungarian folklorist read my book & got excited about it, & she managed to dig up a🧵(1/3)

Romanised Pali manuscript of the Lokapannati

Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India
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Bhoota Vahana Yanta
Bhoota Vahana Yanta means “spirit movement machine.” The term is used
for several varieties of robot drone assassins and sword-wielding machine-
men mentioned in the Lokapannati, a Pali-language text written between
1000 and 1200 CE by Saddhammaghosa of Thaton, but concerning
events that took place much earlier, around 500 to 200 BCE.
According to the story, robots were first invented by engineers of the
early Roman Republic. These robots were used for commerce, in agriculture,
as a police force, and as executioners. The secret of how to build these
spirit-engines was fiercely protected. If any engineer dared to take the designs
out of the city, one of his own executioner robots would come after
him and kill him.
At that time, in Pataliputra (then in the kingdom of Magadha, now
Patna in the state of Bihar), there lived a young man who had heard of the
Romans’ magical androids. He became so determined to learn the secrets
of their manufacture and share them with the people of Magadha that he
arranged his own death. Then, on his deathbed, he vowed to be reincarnated
as a Roman.
This indeed took place. In his new life, the man grew up to join the
Roman guild of engineers. He even married the daughter of the Master
Robot-Maker, and had a son by her.
Once he learned the secrets of the Bhoota Vahana Yanta, the man resolved
to transfer the information back to Pataliputra. But he was well
aware that now, since he was a member of the guild, he would be killed as
soon as he left. So he cut a gash in his thigh, inserted the plans in his flesh,
and sewed the wound back up.

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 3d

By October 15, apply for a fellowship to fund your visit to HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota, for research residencies to be completed between January 1 and June 30, 2026.

Learn more: hmml.org/research/fellowships
Application deadline: October 15

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CNN @cnn.com · 4d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed

According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.

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