Jonah Bissell is a first-year doctoral student specializing in Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean World. His research focuses on varieties of Christianity (i.e., catholic, monastic, Gnostic, Manichean, etc.), Judaism, and indigenous religion in late antique Egypt. He is also interested in the intersection of ecology and religion in Mediterranean antiquity. Jonah was born and raised in Rutland, Vermont and went on to earn a B.A. in Biblical Studies from Moody Bible Institute (Chicago) and an M.T.S. in Biblical Studies from Duke Divinity School (2020). While at Duke he was selected as one of five research fellows in the eight-week Luce-funded grant program Facing the Anthropocene (2019). Jonah has published in the Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Religious Studies Review, and American Baptist Quarterly. He is also ordained in the American Baptist Churches (U.S.A.).