Biography
Bond was born in 1968 and raised in the North East of England. She attended Durham High School. She read biblical studies at the Durham University,University of Tübingen,and the University of St Andrews. At Durham,she completed her PhD on Pontius Pilate under the supervision of James Dunn. [2]
From 1996 to 2000 Bond taught New Testament at the University of Aberdeen,and since 2000 has taught at the University of Edinburgh. [2]
Since 2011,Bond has served as Director of the Centre for the Study of Christian Origins [1] and,she was Head of the School of Divinity,University of Edinburgh from 2018 - 2023. [3] She currently serves as Professor of Christian Origins at the New College. [4]
She is a member of the Church of Scotland (Falkirk Old Parish Church) and is married to Keith Raffan. Together,they have two children,Katriona and Scott. [3]
Bond was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in March 2021. [5]
In 2023,Bond began co-hosting the Biblical Time Machine podcast with journalist David Roos. The podcast discusses the social,political and theological history of the Bible and adjacent texts. Bond and co-host centre episodes under the guise that they are travelling back in time in the eponymous time machine,often to Judea in the first century CE. In 2025,historian Lloyd Llewellyn Jones joined the podcast as co-host following Roos' departure. They often invite expert guests to speak on different aspects of ancient history. [6] Notable guests have included Mark Goodacre,Joan E. Taylor,John Cleese,James Tabor and Dan McClellan
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