Lincoln Blumell

Bio

Dr. Blumell is a visiting assistant professor at BYU. He received a BA Hons. in Classical and Early Christian Studies from the University of Calgary; an MA from the University of Calgary in Religious Studies (Ancient Christianity); an M.St. from Oxford (Christ Church) in Jewish Studies; and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in Religious Studies (Early Christianity). Before coming to BYU, Dr. Blumell held a Visiting Assistant Professorship in the Department of Classical Studies at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Dr. Blumell has taught the New Testament, Book of Mormon, Second Temple Judaism, History of Ancient Christianity (A.D. 100 - 400), Persecution and Martyrdom in Ancient Christianity, Egypt in the Roman Empire, and Classical Mythology.
He specializes in the New Testament, Second Temple Judaism, and History of Ancient Christianity until the Byzantine Period and researches Early Christianity in Egypt, Ancient Christian Letters, and Greek Papyrology. He uses Biblical Hebrew, Sahidic Coptic, Classical Greek, Latin, French, and German to inform his scholarship.

Highlighted Publications:

P.Mich.inv. 1568v: Fragmentary Report of Proceedings in Red Ink from Late Second Century AD Oxyrhynchus" Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 46 (2009) 23–29.

"A Note on the Meaning of the Term monoktistes" Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 166 (2008) 22.

"Reconsidering the Dates of Three Christian Letters: P.Oxy. XVIII 2193, 2194, P.Köln IV 200 and a Reference in the Historia monachorum in Aegypto" Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 54.2 (2008) 219–222.

"Petition to a Beneficiarius from Late Third Century A.D. Oxyrhynchus" Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigrahpik 165 (2008) 186–190.

"Social Banditry? Galilean Banditry from Herod until the Outbreak of the First Jewish Revolt" Scripta Classica Israelica 27 (2008) 35–53.

"Beware of Bandits! Banditry and Land Travel in the Roman Empire" Journeys. The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing 8.1 (2008) 1–20.

"P.Vindob. G 26079: A Parchment Codex Fragment of LXX Ecclesiastes 1:14–17" Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 44 (2007) 23–26.

"A Jew in Celsus' True Doctrine? An Examination of Jewish Anti-Christian Polemic in the Second Century C.E." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 36.2 (2007) 297–315.

"Scribes and Ancient Letters: Implications for the Pauline Epistles," in How the New Testament Came to Be: The Thirty-fifth Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, ed. Kent P. Jackson and Frank F. Judd Jr. (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2006), 208–226.

Curriculum Vitae

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