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January 2009
Giovanni Bazzana Named Assistant
Professor of New Testament
Contact:
Jonathan Beasley,
617.496.6004
The celebrated New Testament scholar
Giovanni Bazzana has accepted an appointment to the Faculty of Divinity
as Assistant Professor of New Testament. Bazzana, who currently serves
as a sessional instructor in the Department for the Study of Religion at
the University of Toronto, will assume his post at Harvard Divinity
School on July 1, 2009.
"We are delighted that Giovanni Bazzana
will be joining our faculty next fall," said Dean William A. Graham in
announcing the appointment. "He has already established himself as a
first-rate scholar in Christian New Testament studies with his work on
the figure of the prophet in New Testament literature. His strength in
papyrology also brings an important strength to biblical studies at
Harvard. We look forward to welcoming him to our ranks and to having his
teaching and mentoring for Harvard students in both Divinity School and
Faculty of Arts and Sciences programs."
Before teaching at Toronto, Bazzana was
a fellow from 2004-07 at the University of Milan (Università degli Studi
di Milano), where he also received an MA and taught courses on New
Testament and early Christian literature. Bazzana received his PhD in
religious studies from the International School of Sciences of Culture
in Modena, Italy. In 2007-08, he was a visiting professor at the
University of Notre Dame.
"Harvard University and Harvard Divinity
School have a striking character," Bazzana said. "The richness of the
library and the high quality of the intellectual debate are well known.
With its strength in the classics and in anthropology, Harvard will
afford me the best opportunity to successfully pursue my current
research. I look forward to working in such a pleasing and stimulating
environment."
Bazzana's areas of research include the
Gospels and papyrology, the New Testament in its social world, and the
old Latin translation of the Bible. His chief focus is on how New
Testament and early Christian texts work together within the wider
context of the Jewish and Greco-Roman world. His most recent work
examines a wide array of sources—not only literary, but also
papyrological and epigraphical—in order to discover how ancient
audiences other than learned elites may have received the Christian
message.
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