PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY LECTURE
Date: Thursday, October 17, 2019
Time: 7:30 – 9:00 pm
Location: EDC-287
Cost: Members: free; Guests: $5; Students with ID: $2
Description:
In this presentation Dr. Lincoln H. Blumell will introduce and discuss the diverse range of evidences discovered at Oxyrhynchus, a Roman city located in Middle Egypt, for Christianity.
Thought relatively unknown, Oxyrhynchus has yielded many of the earliest textual remains for Christianity that begin in the second century CE and continue through the seventh century CE. In addition to introducing this material he will also show its significance for understanding Christianity in the first few centuries of the Common Era.
About the Speaker:
Lincoln H. Blumell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Calgary, University of Oxford, and University of Toronto. He specializes in Early Christianity and Greek and Coptic papyrology and epigraphy. He has published three books, Lettered Christians: Christians, Letters, and Late Antique Oxyrhynchus (Brill, 2012), Christian Oxyrhyhnchus: Texts, Documents, and Sources (Baylor University Press, 2015), with T. A. Wayment, and Didymus the Blind’s Commentary on the Psalms 26:10–29:2 and 36:1–3 (Brepols, 2019), with T. W. Mackay and Gregg Schwendner. He is also the author of numerous articles.