Lynne Moss Bahr
Fordham University
Department of Theology
441 East Fordham Road
Bronx, NY 10458
lbahr@fordham.edu
EDUCATION
2017 Ph.D., Fordham University, Theology/Christianity in Antiquity
2011 M.Div., Union Theological Seminary, New Testament Studies
1995 B.A., Colby College, English (cum laude)
RESEARCH LANGUAGES
Hellenistic and Biblical Greek, Classical Latin, Coptic, Biblical Hebrew, German, French.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
“The Time Is Fulfilled”: Jesus’s Apocalypticism in the Context of Continental Philosophy. Library of New Testament Studies. London: T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2018.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Review of Michael G. Levine, A Weak Messianic Power: Figures to Come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan (New York: Fordham University Press, 2014) for Bible and Critical Theory 13, no. 2 (2017): 76-79.
ONLINE JOURNALS:
Dissertation Spotlight: “The Time Is Fulfilled: Jesus’s Apocalypticism in the Context of Continental Philosophy.” Ancient Jew Review, forthcoming in 2019.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
2018 Invited panelist, “The Temporal Turn in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity,” at the annual national meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature/American Academy of Religion, Denver, CO.
2017 “The Messianic Now-Time in the Parable of the Great Feast,” at the annual national meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature/American Academy of Religion, Boston, MA.
2016 “Seed and Harvest, to Sow and to Reap: Apocalyptic Metaphors and Conceptions of Time in the Gospel of Mark and 4 Ezra,” at the Mid-Atlantic Region Society of Biblical Literature Conference, New Brunswick, NJ.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2019 Adjunct Assistant Professor of New Testament, Fordham University Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education
- Introduction to the New Testament (online course)
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theology, Fordham University
- Early Christian Writings
2018 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Manhattan College
- The Nature and Experience of Religion
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theology, Fordham University
- Faith & Critical Reason
Lecturer in Theology, Fordham University
- Introduction to the New Testament
- Faith & Critical Reason
2017 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, St. John’s University
- Perspectives on Christianity: A Catholic Approach
- Reading the New Testament
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theology, Fordham University
- Introduction to the New Testament
- Faith & Critical Reason
2013-2016 Instructor of Record, Fordham University
- Faith & Critical Reason
- Introduction to the New Testament
- Early Christian Writings
2012-2013 Teaching Assistant, Fordham University
- Christian Thought and Practice I, with Maureen Tilley
- Church and Controversy, with Brenna Moore
2011-2012 Writing Center Tutor, Fordham University
- Instructed students on revising papers for structure, style, and content in one-on-one sessions.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
2017 Panelist in symposium “Jesus Just Left Chicago: Politics, Activism, Social Justice, and Music in Jesus Christ Superstar,” at Motherlodge Live Arts Exchange, Louisville, KY.
2017 Panelist in roundtable discussion “Teaching the Biblical Text,” at Theology Graduate Student Association Teaching Development Seminar, Fordham University, Bronx, NY.
HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2016-2017 Elizabeth A. Johnson Endowed Distinguished Fellowship
2015-2016 Fordham University Centennial Scholarship
2013-2016 Fordham University Teaching Fellow
2011-2015 Fordham University Presidential Scholarship
2008-2011 Academic record of distinction at Union Theological Seminary
SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT
2014-2015 Teaching Development Chairperson, Fordham Theology Graduate Student Association.
2011-2013 Fordham University Graduate Assistant
- Edited Learning from All the Faithful: A Contemporary Theology of the Sensus Fidei, eds., Bradford E. Hinze and Peter C. Phan, Pickwick Publications.
NON-ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE
2005-2009 Project Manager, Watercolor, a national quarterly magazine on the materials and techniques of watermedia painting.
- Conceived and executed all editorial content, including extensive writing responsibilities in addition to commissioning and editing features and departments.
1998-2005 Senior Editor, American Artist, the leading monthly magazine on the materials and techniques of fine art.
- Supervised staff of four editors, oversaw editorial production of monthly magazine and three quarterlies, established and enforced magazine’s style manual. Wrote dozens of feature and news articles.
1996-1998 Assistant Editor, American Artist.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Society of Biblical Literature
Columbia University New Testament Seminar
North American Patristics Society
Society of Biblical Literature/American Academy of Religion Women’s Caucus
REFERENCES
Larry Welborn
Professor of Theology
Fordham University
441 East Fordham Road
Bronx, NY 10458
718-817-3250
welborn@fordham.edu
Benjamin H. Dunning
Professor of Theology
Lincoln Center Campus
Lowenstein 921A
113 W. 60th St.
New York, NY 10023
212-636-6383
dunning@fordham.edu
Michael L. Peppard
Associate Professor of Theology
Fordham University
441 East Fordham Road
Bronx, NY 10458
718-817-3248
mpeppard@fordham.edu
Charles Camosy (teaching reference)
Associate Professor of Theology
Fordham University
441 East Fordham Road
Bronx, NY 10458
718-817-3207
camosy@fordham.edu
