Jonah Bissell is a second-year doctoral student specializing in Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean World. His research focuses on the intersections of ecology and religion, questions of theory, religious identification, overlapping traditions (i.e., “syncretism”, comparative religion), claims of normativity, and the lived religious experience of sub-elite persons in Mediterranean antiquity. Jonah is currently researching Nile veneration in Coptic and early Islamic Egypt under the supervision of Prof. David Frankfurter. Jonah has published in the Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Religious Studies Review, Reading Religion, The Christian Citizen, and Baptist News Global. He is ordained in the American Baptist Churches (U.S.A.).