Scholar in Residence: David “Tony” Basham



The Religion Department at Ashland University is delighted to welcome David Anthony “Tony” Basham as our scholar in residence for the 2021/22 school year.
 
With his roots in West Virginia, Tony's love of studying the New Testament has taken him far afield. He is a Ph.D. Candidate at McGill University in Montréal, Canada. Before McGill, Tony studied at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and Durham University in northern England. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, he was chosen as one of two doctoral students worldwide for the Dirk Smilde Fellowship and Research Seminar that was to take place at the Qumran Institute of the University of Groningen, Netherlands. 

Tony has worked on numerous projects including The Journal of the Council for Research on Religion, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha. He is also an Assistant Researcher for the Contexticon Project in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which helps New Testament readers to hear the import of biblical language more nearly as native Greek speakers in the Greco-Roman world. His first major publication is forthcoming in September 2021 with Routledge as a chapter for Religion and Violence in Western Traditions: Select Studies. Tony is currently completing his doctoral dissertation on Paul’s temple metaphors in 1 Corinthians.

During his year at Ashland University, Tony will be teaching classes in Bible as well as making guest appearances in our advanced New Testament classes and seminars.

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