Lincoln H. Blumell is Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University.
Education
Ph.D. University of Toronto, 2009 (Religious Studies, Ancient Christianity) M.St. Christ Church, University of Oxford, 2004 (Jewish Studies) M.A. University of Calgary, 2003 (Religious Studies, Specialization in Western Religions) B.A. (Hons.) University of Calgary, 2001 (Classical & Early Christian Studies) Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Spring Semester 2000.
Area of Specialization
Early Christianity; Early Egyptian Christianity; Greek and Coptic Papyrology; Ancient Epistolography
Recent Publications
Lettered Christians: Christians, Letters, and Late Antique Oxyrhynchus. For New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents. General Editors Bart Ehrman & Eldon Epp, Brill, 2012
“Is P.Oxy. XLII 3057 the Earliest Christian Letter?” In Thomas J. Kraus and Tobias Nicklas (eds.), Early Christian Manuscripts: Examples of Applied Method and Approach. Texts and Editions for New Testament Study Vol. IV. (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2010), 97-113.
“P.Vindob. G 42417( = P116): Codex Fragment of the Epistle to the Hebrews 2:9-11 & 3:3-6 Reconsidered” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 171 (2009) 65-69.
“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 monokti,st(hj)” 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 Epigraphik 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.