Lincoln H. Blumell is a Professor in the Department of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in the Department for the Study of Religion in 2009. He also holds a M.St. from the University of Oxford (Christ Church) and an M.A. and BA (Hons.) from the University of Calgary. His research focus is Christianity in the Roman and Byzantine periods with a special emphasis on Christianity in Egypt and Greek and Coptic papyrology and epigraphy.