Lincoln H Blumell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1459615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lincoln H Blumell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lincoln H |
| FAMILY NAME | Blumell |
| SIGNATURE | BLUMELL L H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2922-5337 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hekate and the Priest Dionysios on a Phrygian Doorstone Monument in the North Carolina Museum of Art
This article presents an iconographic and textual analysis of a monument likely hailing from the Upper Tembris valley of Phrygia that now resides in the North Carolina Museum of Art. The monument has received little scholarly attention, yet it has much to contribute to our understanding of priestly roles associated with the goddess Hekate. The text commemorates the dedication of a decorated grave monument to Tertia, whose husband is Dionysios. Th…
A Ptolemaic petition from a 'Judeo-Egyptian' (Ἰουδαιοαιγύπτιος)
This article presents an edition of an unpublished Ptolemaic papyrus presently housed in the Matsushita Museum of Art in Kirishima, Japan. The papyrus comes from a village in the meris of Themistos in the Arsinoite nome (Egypt) and dates to the late third century bce . The most noteworthy aspect of this fragmentary papyrus, which preserves a petition, is that the individual who submitted it bears the compound ethnic identifier 'Judeo-Egyptian' (Ἰ…
A Name List on Claudius’s Letter to the Alexandrians (P.Lond. VI 1912)
The publication of a list of names that appears between columns two and three of Claudius’s letter to the Alexandrians (P.Lond. VI 1912). Though the hand of the list is different from the hand of the letter, it shares paleographic and onomastic parallels with other documents in the archive of Nemesion
Two Christian Funerary Stelae in the Magazine at Fustât (Old Cairo)
This article presents editions of two unpublished Christian funerary stelae from the storage magazine in Fustât (Old Cairo). One is written entirely in Coptic while the other is bilingual and is written in Greek and Coptic
A Coptic Magical Text for Virginity in Marriage
The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose (CA) owns a small but important collection of unpublished Coptic papyri and parchments. One notable papyrus preserves a unique text in which the practitioner invokes an unnamed female figure to help a woman protect her “purity,” “virginity,” and “marriage.” Although the specific context behind the text is not altogether clear and the appeal for virginity in marriage is curious and without parallel in ot…
Scripture as Artefact
This chapter will examine the extant scriptural remains of the early Christians in order to elucidate the context in which early Christian Scriptures were produced, read, and interpreted. To this end, it will consider various issues relating to the earliest extant Christian Scriptures such as their physical formats (scrolls, codices, etc.), mise-en-page , literary conventions and extra-textual features, production (where and by whom), as well as …
Two Greek Inscriptions from Karanis
This article presents editions of two previously unpublished Greek inscriptions found at Karanis and currently stored at the Kom Aushim Magazine. One inscription is a Christian funerary stele and the other is a dedicatory inscription from the early Roman period. Keywords Karanis; Epigraphy; Greek; Christianity; Cemetery; Dedicatory Inscription
Christian Oxyrhynchus
Authoritative, comprehensive presentation of Christian texts and texts about Christians in the Oxyrhynchus papyri
A New Jewish Epitaph Commemorating Care for Orphans
This article presents an edition of a previously unpublished Greek epitaph in the J. Willard Marriot Library at the University of Utah. The inscription commemorates a woman by the name of Helene who is identified as a Ἰουδαία and who was remembered for showing love to orphans. While Helene is identified as a Ἰουδαία she is also styled as an Ἄμα, a title that otherwise only occurs for certain Christian women in late antique Egypt. Thus, this inscr…
Rereading the Council of Nicaea and Its Creed
This chapter contextualizes the production of the Nicene Creed by examining the primary documentary sources of the Council of Nicaea. LDS members have often cited the Nicene Creed as evidence of ecclesial and doctrinal apostasy, but this chapter demonstrates that the bishops at the Council of Nicaea shared many theological concerns with Latter-day Saints, though they reached some different conclusions about the nature of Christ. It suggests that …
Two Coptic Epitaphs in the Kom Aushim Storage Magazine
This article presents editions of two previously unpublished Coptic inscriptions in the Kom Aushim (Karanis) storage magazine. The two inscriptions are epitaphs, date somewhere between the seventh and tenth century, and are written in the Fayumic dialect
Adnotationes epigraphicae V ( 37–44)
A Jewish Epitaph from the Fayum
This paper presents an edition of a previously unpublished Ptolemaic Jewish epitaph from the Fayum (Egypt). The epitaph is stored in the Kom Aushim (Karanis) magazine and was discovered by the author in the spring of 2014 while working in the magazine. This is the first known Jewish epitaph from the Fayum region
Two Coptic Ostraca in the Brigham Young University Collection
Brigham Young University acquired a small collection of Coptic artifacts in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Though little is known about the origin of most of the items, the provenance of the two ostraca published here can be determined given remarkable parallels they share with some published texts from known locales. One ostracon comes from Wadi Sarga and the other comes from the monastery of Apa Apollo in Bawit. Both texts date to the eighth c…
Lettered Christians
With the discovery of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri just over a century ago a number of important texts directly relating to ancient Christianity have come to light. While certain literary texts have received considerable attention in scholarship by comparison the documentary evidence relating to Christianity has received far less attention and remains rather obscure. To help redress this imbalance, and to lend some context to the Christian literary mat…
Christians on the Move in Late Antique Oxyrhynchus
A Second-Century AD Letter of Introduction in the Washington State University Collection
Edition of a papyrus of the Washington State University; beginning of a letter which breaks off at the bottom after fourteen lines. In this letter the sender, a certain Ptolemaios, writes to his father Tryphon informing him that a man named Galates will a letter to him and that Galates then intends to meet with the strategus. Before the letter breaks off, Ptolemaios asks from his father the kind reception of Galates
Beware of Bandits
This paper considers the perils of travel by focusing on banditry, a conspicuous, yet oft-neglected, feature of the Roman Empire. Appearing at different times and at various locations it was thoroughly entrenched in Roman society and affected both the rich and poor alike. But the primary victim of banditry and the one to whom it posed the greatest threat was the ancient traveller since brigands tended to operate mostly along roads and rural highw…
A Jew in Celsus' True Doctrine? An examination of Jewish Anti-Christian polemic in the second century C.E
One of the major obstacles to presenting a more balanced assessment of Jewish-Christian relations in the 2nd century C.E. is the virtual absence of Jewish literary sources for the period. Though Jews figure prominently in the writings of the 2nd century Church Fathers and later Christian Apologists, it is becoming increasingly evident in scholarship that these texts portray Jews in a tendentious manner, often reveal more about Christian self-defi…
Remains of the Jews
"Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity, by Andrew S. Jacobs." Canadian Journal of History, 41(1), pp. 103–104
Beware of Bandits
This paper considers the perils of travel by focusing on banditry, a conspicuous, yet oft-neglected, feature of the Roman Empire. Appearing at different times and at various locations it was thoroughly entrenched in Roman society and affected both the rich and poor alike. But the primary victim of banditry and the one to whom it posed the greatest threat was the ancient traveller since brigands tended to operate mostly along roads and rural highw…
Remains of the Jews
"Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity, by Andrew S. Jacobs." Canadian Journal of History, 41(1), pp. 103–104
Beware of Bandits
This paper considers the perils of travel by focusing on banditry, a conspicuous, yet oft-neglected, feature of the Roman Empire. Appearing at different times and at various locations it was thoroughly entrenched in Roman society and affected both the rich and poor alike. But the primary victim of banditry and the one to whom it posed the greatest threat was the ancient traveller since brigands tended to operate mostly along roads and rural highw…
A Jew in Celsus' True Doctrine? An examination of Jewish Anti-Christian polemic in the second century C.E
One of the major obstacles to presenting a more balanced assessment of Jewish-Christian relations in the 2nd century C.E. is the virtual absence of Jewish literary sources for the period. Though Jews figure prominently in the writings of the 2nd century Church Fathers and later Christian Apologists, it is becoming increasingly evident in scholarship that these texts portray Jews in a tendentious manner, often reveal more about Christian self-defi…
Christians on the Move in Late Antique Oxyrhynchus
A Second-Century AD Letter of Introduction in the Washington State University Collection
Edition of a papyrus of the Washington State University; beginning of a letter which breaks off at the bottom after fourteen lines. In this letter the sender, a certain Ptolemaios, writes to his father Tryphon informing him that a man named Galates will a letter to him and that Galates then intends to meet with the strategus. Before the letter breaks off, Ptolemaios asks from his father the kind reception of Galates
Lettered Christians
With the discovery of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri just over a century ago a number of important texts directly relating to ancient Christianity have come to light. While certain literary texts have received considerable attention in scholarship by comparison the documentary evidence relating to Christianity has received far less attention and remains rather obscure. To help redress this imbalance, and to lend some context to the Christian literary mat…
Two Coptic Ostraca in the Brigham Young University Collection
Brigham Young University acquired a small collection of Coptic artifacts in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Though little is known about the origin of most of the items, the provenance of the two ostraca published here can be determined given remarkable parallels they share with some published texts from known locales. One ostracon comes from Wadi Sarga and the other comes from the monastery of Apa Apollo in Bawit. Both texts date to the eighth c…
Rereading the Council of Nicaea and Its Creed
This chapter contextualizes the production of the Nicene Creed by examining the primary documentary sources of the Council of Nicaea. LDS members have often cited the Nicene Creed as evidence of ecclesial and doctrinal apostasy, but this chapter demonstrates that the bishops at the Council of Nicaea shared many theological concerns with Latter-day Saints, though they reached some different conclusions about the nature of Christ. It suggests that …
Two Coptic Epitaphs in the Kom Aushim Storage Magazine
This article presents editions of two previously unpublished Coptic inscriptions in the Kom Aushim (Karanis) storage magazine. The two inscriptions are epitaphs, date somewhere between the seventh and tenth century, and are written in the Fayumic dialect
Adnotationes epigraphicae V ( 37–44)
A Jewish Epitaph from the Fayum
This paper presents an edition of a previously unpublished Ptolemaic Jewish epitaph from the Fayum (Egypt). The epitaph is stored in the Kom Aushim (Karanis) magazine and was discovered by the author in the spring of 2014 while working in the magazine. This is the first known Jewish epitaph from the Fayum region
A New Jewish Epitaph Commemorating Care for Orphans
This article presents an edition of a previously unpublished Greek epitaph in the J. Willard Marriot Library at the University of Utah. The inscription commemorates a woman by the name of Helene who is identified as a Ἰουδαία and who was remembered for showing love to orphans. While Helene is identified as a Ἰουδαία she is also styled as an Ἄμα, a title that otherwise only occurs for certain Christian women in late antique Egypt. Thus, this inscr…
Two Greek Inscriptions from Karanis
This article presents editions of two previously unpublished Greek inscriptions found at Karanis and currently stored at the Kom Aushim Magazine. One inscription is a Christian funerary stele and the other is a dedicatory inscription from the early Roman period. Keywords Karanis; Epigraphy; Greek; Christianity; Cemetery; Dedicatory Inscription
Christian Oxyrhynchus
Authoritative, comprehensive presentation of Christian texts and texts about Christians in the Oxyrhynchus papyri
Scripture as Artefact
This chapter will examine the extant scriptural remains of the early Christians in order to elucidate the context in which early Christian Scriptures were produced, read, and interpreted. To this end, it will consider various issues relating to the earliest extant Christian Scriptures such as their physical formats (scrolls, codices, etc.), mise-en-page , literary conventions and extra-textual features, production (where and by whom), as well as …
A Coptic Magical Text for Virginity in Marriage
The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose (CA) owns a small but important collection of unpublished Coptic papyri and parchments. One notable papyrus preserves a unique text in which the practitioner invokes an unnamed female figure to help a woman protect her “purity,” “virginity,” and “marriage.” Although the specific context behind the text is not altogether clear and the appeal for virginity in marriage is curious and without parallel in ot…
A Name List on Claudius’s Letter to the Alexandrians (P.Lond. VI 1912)
The publication of a list of names that appears between columns two and three of Claudius’s letter to the Alexandrians (P.Lond. VI 1912). Though the hand of the list is different from the hand of the letter, it shares paleographic and onomastic parallels with other documents in the archive of Nemesion
Two Christian Funerary Stelae in the Magazine at Fustât (Old Cairo)
This article presents editions of two unpublished Christian funerary stelae from the storage magazine in Fustât (Old Cairo). One is written entirely in Coptic while the other is bilingual and is written in Greek and Coptic
A Ptolemaic petition from a 'Judeo-Egyptian' (Ἰουδαιοαιγύπτιος)
This article presents an edition of an unpublished Ptolemaic papyrus presently housed in the Matsushita Museum of Art in Kirishima, Japan. The papyrus comes from a village in the meris of Themistos in the Arsinoite nome (Egypt) and dates to the late third century bce . The most noteworthy aspect of this fragmentary papyrus, which preserves a petition, is that the individual who submitted it bears the compound ethnic identifier 'Judeo-Egyptian' (Ἰ…
Hekate and the Priest Dionysios on a Phrygian Doorstone Monument in the North Carolina Museum of Art
This article presents an iconographic and textual analysis of a monument likely hailing from the Upper Tembris valley of Phrygia that now resides in the North Carolina Museum of Art. The monument has received little scholarly attention, yet it has much to contribute to our understanding of priestly roles associated with the goddess Hekate. The text commemorates the dedication of a decorated grave monument to Tertia, whose husband is Dionysios. Th…
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