Books by Lincoln H. Blumell
P.BYU. I, 2019
The publication of this important material is long overdue and has been delayed on account of a n... more The publication of this important material is long overdue and has been delayed on account of a number of circumstances. Nevertheless, due to the determination and persistence of various individuals, this important material has now come to see the light of day. These important papyri will not only further illuminate the biblical exegesis of Didymus the Blind, the famous Alexandrian exegete of the late fourth-century, but will also offer new insights into late antique Christianity, education, and scribal practice and literary production. In comparison to the previously published editions of Didymus’ Commentary on Psalms, the present edition is somewhat expanded and includes detailed notes and commentary as well as a diplomatic transcription in addition to the articulated transcription of the text. It is hoped that these additional features will aid the reader of this text and enrich the volume as a whole.
This PDF incudes front matter and introduction to the papyrus.
Lincoln H. Blumell and Thomas A. Wayment present a thorough compendium of all published papyri, p... more Lincoln H. Blumell and Thomas A. Wayment present a thorough compendium of all published papyri, parchments, and patristic sources that relate to Christianity at Oxyrhynchus before the fifth century CE. Christian Oxyrhynchus provides new and expanded editions of Christian literary and documentary texts that include updated readings, English translations—some of which represent the first English translation of a text—and comprehensive notes.
The volume features New Testament texts carefully collated against other textual witnesses and a succinct introduction for each Oxyrhynchus text that provides information about the date of the papyrus, its unique characteristics, and textual variants. Documentary texts are grouped both by genre and date, giving readers access to the Decian Libelli, references to Christians in third- and fourth-century texts, and letters written by Christians. A compelling resource for researchers, teachers, and students, Christian Oxyrhynchus enables broad access to these crucial primary documents beyond specialists in papyrology, Greek, Latin, and Coptic.
Papers by Lincoln H. Blumell
1. Introduction a. Scholarship and the Christian Remains of Oxyrhynchus b. The Study: Argument an... more 1. Introduction a. Scholarship and the Christian Remains of Oxyrhynchus b. The Study: Argument and Structure c. Caveats 2. Writing Christian a. Scholarship and Papyrus Letters Written by Christians b. Markers of Christian Identity within the Letters 3. Mapping Christians: Travel and Epistolary Networks in Christian Letters from Oxyrhynchus a. Travel and Communication in Roman and Byzantine Egypt b. Detectable Travel Motives in the Letters c. Patterns of Travel and Epistolary Networks d. Conclusions 4. Christians of the Book? a. Christians and their Texts b. Learned Christians? c. The Use of "Scripture" in the Letters d. Conclusions 5. What's in a Name? a. Onomastic Data and Religious Adherence in Antiquity b. Nomina Christiana 6. Reading Someone Else's Mail Epilogue. The Demise of Christian Oxyrhynchus
Canadian journal of history, Jun 1, 2006
health sciences, history THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW utpjournals.press/chr Offering a comprehe... more health sciences, history THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW utpjournals.press/chr Offering a comprehensive analysis on the events that have shaped Canada, CHR publishes articles that examine Canadian history from both a multicultural and multidisciplinary perspective.
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2016
Ever since the discovery of the ancient rubbish tip at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt in by Bernard Gr... more Ever since the discovery of the ancient rubbish tip at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt in by Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt, interest in it has been considerable. Since that time over , documentary and , literary texts have been published, greatly enhancing our knowledge of the ancient world in all sorts of ways. In this helpful and carefully presented volume, Lincoln H. Blumell and Thomas A. Wayment bring together some of the most important texts, biblical, literary and documentary, relating to the Christian inhabitants of the city. Grenfell and Hunt's first published discovery was in fact a fragment (one of three to be found there) of the Christian Gospel of Thomas, later to be discovered in its complete form, in a Coptic translation, at Nag Hammadi in , and it has been these fragments, which, for a variety of reasons, have attracted most interest on the part of Christian scholars. But they form but a very small percentage of the Christian material found at Oxyrhynchus and it is the great virtue of this volume that we now have much of this material, though not all of it, in one volume, where previously it lay scattered in various disparate publications. The book divides itself into four parts. The first is devoted to Christian literary papyri, beginning with New Testament texts, which constitute our earliest Christian evidence from Oxyrhynchus and make up per cent of all known New Testament papyri ( out of , though the latter number, which is provided by Blumell and Wayment, is now out of date. According to Nestle Aland, we now have New Testament papyri, and the last four discoveries do not come from Oxyrhynchus, and provide us with our earliest fragment of the New Testament. For the textual critic, the finds are interesting for a number of reasons, not least the fact that they witness to all four textual groups of the New Testament (Alexandrian, Western, Caesarean and Byzantine). The editors' presentation of these papyri, as with all of the material in this volume, is systematic. The reader is provided with a prospective date (some might think that giving a papyrus a date in the late second century is too precise, a point referred to by the editors, but not straightforwardly conceded), a list of the editions of the text, a bibliography, an introduction, including a physical description of the text, a transcription (though no translation) and some textual discussion. The second part of this section is taken up with discussion of extracanonical texts, which include the already mentioned fragments of the Gospel of Thomas, of the Gospel of Peter, of the Gospel of Mary, sundry fragments of unnamed gospels, the Shepherd of Hermas, the number of whose fragments are the largest, the Acts of John, the Acts of Peter, the Sophia Jesu Christi, and the Didache. Under the same heading of Christian literary papyri appear another set of texts grouped under the title 'Other Christian literary texts'. These include the well-known fragment of Irenaeus' Adversus haereses, which probably dates from the late second/early third century, and would appear to have reached Oxyrhynchus not very long after Irenaeus wrote the work in Gaul, fragments of Aristides's Apology and Melito's Peri Pascha together with three amulets, one consisting of the first verse of Mark's Gospel, a work, interestingly, not witnessed in the collection of New
Lettered Christians, 2012
The Journal of Hellenic Studies
Canadian Journal of History
health sciences, history THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW utpjournals.press/chr Offering a comprehe... more health sciences, history THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW utpjournals.press/chr Offering a comprehensive analysis on the events that have shaped Canada, CHR publishes articles that examine Canadian history from both a multicultural and multidisciplinary perspective.
TYCHE - Contributions to Ancient History, Papyrology and Epigraphy, 2014
Ein neues Textstück aus den "Scythica Vindobonensia" zu den Ereignissen nach der Eroberung von Ph... more Ein neues Textstück aus den "Scythica Vindobonensia" zu den Ereignissen nach der Eroberung von Philippopolis (Taf. 12-15
by Vassilios Christides, Evina Badawy, اسحاق عجبان, Dr. Dawoud Khalil Messiha, Rasha El-Mofatch, Marco Stroppa, louay saied, Mohammed Zayed, EIRINI ARTEMI, Tarek M Muhammad, Lincoln H. Blumell, Mabrouka kamel, Konstantin Klein, Cornelia Roemer, seham D A Aish, and Marian Lukas Ureutz Ain Shams University, 5-7 May 2015, Cairo, Egypt.
Articles by Lincoln H. Blumell
Journal of Jewish Studies, 2024
This article presents an edition of an unpublished Ptolemaic papyrus presently housed in the Mats... more 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' (Ἰουδαιοαιγύπτιος), which is hitherto unattested.
IWNW: Journal of the Faculty of Archaeology at Ain-Shams University, 2024
A complete Coptic (Sahidic) epitaph for an Apa Simothe of Tiloj (=Nilopolis) likely dates between... more A complete Coptic (Sahidic) epitaph for an Apa Simothe of Tiloj (=Nilopolis) likely dates between the seventh and ninth centuries. The epitaph is one of a relatively small group of “litany inscriptions” that begins with an invocation to the trinity, archangels, notable biblical figures, and several saints and martyrs.
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 2019
This article presents editions of four Greek inscriptions in the Okayama Orient Museum.
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 2015
This article contains editions of two Christian burial stelae that come from the Fayum.
COPTICA PALATINA. Koptische Texte aus der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung (P.Heid.Kopt.). , 2019
This article proposes that 7Q6.2 and 7Q9 share similar graphic features and as such once belonged... more This article proposes that 7Q6.2 and 7Q9 share similar graphic features and as such once belonged to the same text and can be joined together. Furthermore , it seeks to show that the combined fragments produce a new letter combination whereby a compelling case can then be made that they preserve Deuteronomy 20:19. Résumé Cet article propose que 7Q6.2 et 7Q9 partagent des traits visuels simi-laires et qu'ils appartenaient autrefois, du coup, au même texte et peuvent être reliés. En plus, il propose que ce fragment combiné produit une nouvelle com-binaison de lettres qui fait qu'un argument persuadant peut être fait que ce fragment préserve Deutéronome 20:19.
In this paper we examine the recently discovered Sahidic Coptic fragments of the New Testament in... more In this paper we examine the recently discovered Sahidic Coptic fragments of the New Testament in the BYU collection. These fragments are important for the transmission of the Sahidic Coptic New Testament since some of them date to the seventh or eighth century and represent relatively early attestations of the Coptic New Testament. Additionally, the fragments contain a few interesting textual variants that are of importance for considering the transmission of the New Testament in Coptic.
Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 2016
Edition of a Coptic epitaph from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
that invokes a litany... more Edition of a Coptic epitaph from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
that invokes a litany of saints. The inscription likely dates
to the seventh to ninth century and originates from Saqqara or Bawit.
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Books by Lincoln H. Blumell
This PDF incudes front matter and introduction to the papyrus.
The volume features New Testament texts carefully collated against other textual witnesses and a succinct introduction for each Oxyrhynchus text that provides information about the date of the papyrus, its unique characteristics, and textual variants. Documentary texts are grouped both by genre and date, giving readers access to the Decian Libelli, references to Christians in third- and fourth-century texts, and letters written by Christians. A compelling resource for researchers, teachers, and students, Christian Oxyrhynchus enables broad access to these crucial primary documents beyond specialists in papyrology, Greek, Latin, and Coptic.
Papers by Lincoln H. Blumell
Articles by Lincoln H. Blumell
that invokes a litany of saints. The inscription likely dates
to the seventh to ninth century and originates from Saqqara or Bawit.
This PDF incudes front matter and introduction to the papyrus.
The volume features New Testament texts carefully collated against other textual witnesses and a succinct introduction for each Oxyrhynchus text that provides information about the date of the papyrus, its unique characteristics, and textual variants. Documentary texts are grouped both by genre and date, giving readers access to the Decian Libelli, references to Christians in third- and fourth-century texts, and letters written by Christians. A compelling resource for researchers, teachers, and students, Christian Oxyrhynchus enables broad access to these crucial primary documents beyond specialists in papyrology, Greek, Latin, and Coptic.
that invokes a litany of saints. The inscription likely dates
to the seventh to ninth century and originates from Saqqara or Bawit.