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Lincoln H. Blumell

Lincoln H. Blumell is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University. Prior to coming to BYU in the fall of 2010, Dr. Blumell taught for a year in the Classics Department at Tulane University. His research specialties are Christianity in the Roman Empire and Greek Papyrology. His first book, Lettered Christians: Christians, Letters, and Late Antique Oxyrhynchus, was published by Brill in 2012. Recent articles include: “A Second-Century AD Letter of Introduction in the Washington State University Collection,” Tyche 26 (2011): 33–39; “A Text-Critical Comparison of the King James New Testament with Certain Modern Translations,” Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 3 (2011): 67–127; “A Gold Lamella with a Greek Inscription in the Brigham Young University Collection,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 177 (2011): 166–68.