2022
“Didymus the Blind and the Tura Papyri”
Guest Speaker at the Institut français d’archéologie orientale
February 2022, Cairo, Egypt
“Unpublished Texts from the Ancient Near East in Collections in Japan”
Hawaii University International Conferences on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education
January 2022, Honolulu, Hawaii
2021
“A Ptolemaic Petition of a “Judeo-Egyptian” (Ἰουδαιοαιγύπτιος)?”
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Papyrology and Early Christian Backgrounds Section
November 2021, San Antonio, Texas
“Text as Artifact: The Works of Didymus the Blind and the Tura Papyri”
New Horizons in Early Christian Studies: Challenges and Opportunities
University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto
March 2021, Toronto, Ontario
2019
Review of B. Nongbri, God’s Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts (Yale, 2018)
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Papyrology and Early Christian Backgrounds Section
November 2019, San Diego, California
“Christian Oxyrhynchus: The Earliest Extant Evidence for Christianity in Egypt”
Society of Egyptian Antiquities/Société pour l’Étude de l’Égypte Ancienne
Oct. 2019, Calgary, Alberta
“Papyrology and Greek and Roman History”
University of Calgary graduate seminar, Oct. 2019, Calgary, Alberta
“An Alexandrian Christian Classroom in the Late Fourth Century AD: BYU’s Didymus Papyri” Harold B. Lee Library Public Lecture
October 2019, Provo, Utah
“An Inscribed Greek Mummy Cloth in Triplicate?” 29th International Congress of Papyrology
July 2019, Lecce, Italy
“The Tura Papyri and the Classroom of Didymus the Blind”
University of Tokyo
May 2019, Japan
“A Coptic Magical Text for Virginity in Marriage: A Witness to the Practice of Celibate Marriage from Christian Egypt?”
Material Culture and Women’s Religious Experience in Antiquity, Maxwell Institute Symposium, Brigham Young University
March 2019, Provo, Utah
“The Classroom Context of the New Testament Text of Didymus the Blind: A Reconsideration of the Tura Papyri and their Text-Critical Value”
Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature
March 2019, Omaha, Nebraska
“Unpublished Aramaic Inscriptions in Collections in Japan”
Second Aramaic & Syriac Studies Conference
March 2019, Cairo University (with K. Hull)
“Papyrological Evidence for Early Christianity at Oxyrhynchus”
Ain Shams University
February 2019, Cairo, Egypt
2018
“The New Testament Text of Didymus the Blind: A Reconsideration of the Tura Papyri and their Text-Critical Value”
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Papyrology and Early Christian Backgrounds Section
November 2018, Denver, Colorado
“Didymus the Blind: A Fourth-Century Alexandrian Exegete”
St. Louis University graduate lecture, Oct. 2018, St. Louis, Missouri
“The New Testament Text of Didymus the Blind: A Reconsideration of the Tura Papyri and their Text-Critical Value”
Society of New Testament Studies annual meeting, Aug. 2018, Athens, Greece
Review of T. de Bruyn, Making Amulets Christian: Artefacts, Scribes, and Contexts (Oxford, 2017)
Canadian Society of Patristic Studies annual meeting, May 2018, Regina, Saskatchewan
“A New Edition of the Last Known Quire of Didymus’ Lectures on Psalms: PsT 26:10–29:1, 36:1–3”
North American Patristics Society
May 2018, Chicago
“Greek Papyri, Parchments, and Ostraca”
Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature
March 2018, Provo, Utah
“New Papyri from Karanis”
Annual meeting for the Society for Classical Studies
Jan. 2018, Boston (with Emily Cole)
2017
“An Analysis of Stamped Amphora Handles from Medinet Fayum, Egypt”
Poster Presentation, annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research
Nov. 2017, Boston (with George Pierce and Haley Wilson-Lemmon)
“Daily Life in Roman Egypt: An Epistolary Survey”
Patricia Paice Lecture, Annual Symposium for the Society of Egyptian Antiquities/Société pour l’Étude de l’Égypte Ancienne, Nov. 2017, Toronto
“An Amulet for Virginity in Marriage? A Coptic Witness to the Practice of “Spiritual Marriage” from Late Antique Egypt”
Canadian Society of Patristic Studies annual meeting, May 2017, Toronto
“Horus, Isis, and the Dark-Eyed Beauty: An Ancient Egyptian Love Spell in the Harold B. Lee Library”
Kennedy Center Lecture
March 2017, Brigham Young University
“The Greek DSS Fragments from Cave 7: New Identifications and Possibilities”
Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature
March 2017, Boulder, Colorado
2016
Panel discussion and review of Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts, Documents, and Sources. Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Corpus Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti Section
November 2016, San Antonio, Texas
“Some Unpublished Fragments in the J. Rendel Harris Collection” (with Thomas A. Wayment)
28th International Congress of Papyrology
August 2016, Barcelona, Spain
“A New Coptic Devotional Ostracon in the University of Utah Collection.”
11th International Congress of Coptic Studies
July 2016, Claremont, California
Panel discussion and review of Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts, Documents, and Sources.
Canadian Society of Patristic Studies annual meeting, May 2016, University of Calgary
“An Ancient New Testament Fragment Used as an Amulet for Persecution?”
Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature
April 2016, Denver, Colorado
“The Christian Papyri in the J. Rendel Harris Collection”
Guest Lecture, Department of Theology and Religion University of Birmingham, February 2016
2015
“A New New Testament Papyrus in the J. Rendel Harris Collection”
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Papyrology and Early Christian Backgrounds Section
November 2015, Atlanta
“A New Jewish (?)/Christian (?) Inscription from Egypt”
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Early Jewish-Christian Relations Section
November 2015, Atlanta
“Papyrology and Early Christianity”
Guest Lecture, Department of Theology St. Louis University, September 2015
“The First Presidency’s General Epistles: A Response in Light of New Testament Epistolography”
Annual Meeting of the Mormon History Association
June 2015, Provo, Utah
“A New Christian Amulet in the J. Rendel Harris Collection”
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies
May 2015, Ottawa, Canada
“Some Unpublished Papyri in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology”
North American Papyrology Seminar
May 2015, Ann Arbor
“Early Christianity in Egypt: A Survey of the Early Papyrological Evidence”
Institute of Coptic Studies
May 2015, Cairo, Egypt
“Epistolary Christianity: A Survey of Early Christian Letters From Egypt”
Ain Shams University
May 2015, Cairo, Egypt
“Inscriptions in the Digital Age: 3D Acquisition, Analysis, and Dissemination of a Greek Epitaph from Egypt” (with George A. Pierce)
Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature
March 2015, Omaha, Nebraska
“The J. Rendel Harris Papyri”
Guest Lecture, Department of Theology and Religion University of Birmingham, February 2015
2014
“Didymus the Blind as Biblical Commentator: Didymus’ Exegesis of Psalms 26:10–29:1”
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Papyrology and Early Christian Backgrounds Section
November 2014, San Diego
“The Text of the New Testament in Didymus the Blind’s Commentary on the Psalms” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies
May 2014, St. Catherines, Canada
2013
“Late Antique Oxyrhynchus and Christianity: IV–VII Centuries”
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Papyrology and Early Christian Backgrounds Section
November 2013, Baltimore
“Two Christian Papyri in the Michigan Collection: A Doxology and a Fragment from the Didascalia CCCXVIII Patrum Nicaenorum”
Twenty-Seventh Congress of Papyrology
August 2013, Warsaw, Poland
“Luke 22:43–44: An Anti-Docetic Interpolation or an Apologetic Omission?”
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies
June 2013, Victoria, Canada
“Book Review Session: Lettered Christians: Christians, Letters, and Late Antique Oxyrhynchus”
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies
June 2013, Victoria, Canada
Author and Speaker: Lincoln H. Blumell
Respondent: Dr. Geoffrey Dunn (Australian Catholic University)
“Some Unpublished Coptic New Testament Fragments at Brigham Young University”
Sixth Annual Symposium of Coptic Studies
February 2013, Calgary, Canada (with Thomas Wayment)
2012
“The Medium and the Message: Some Observations on Epistolary Communication in Antiquity from the Papyri”
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, Information Technologies in Antiquity Section
May 2012, Waterloo, Ontario
“Luke 22:43–44: An Anti-Docetic Interpolation or an Apologetic Omission?”
Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature
March 2012, Provo, Utah
2011
“Some Unpublished Coptic New Testament Fragments at Brigham Young University”
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Christianity in Egypt: Scripture, Tradition, and Reception Section
November 2011, San Francisco (with Thomas Wayment)
“Documents Relating to Egyptian Monasticism in the BYU Collection: Ostraca from the Monastery of Apa Apollo and a 10th Century Coptic Homily”
Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature
March 2011, Denver
2010
“Methodological Considerations in the Identification of Christian and Manichaean Letters” Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Papyrology and Early Christian Backgrounds Section
November 2010, Atlanta
“Bits, Scraps, and Pieces: A Sondage of the BYU Papyri, Parchments, and Ostraca in the Harold B. Lee Library”
Kennedy Center Lecture
October 2010, Brigham Young University
“Is PSI IV 311 Early Evidence for Arianism at Oxyrhynchus?”
Twenty-Sixth Congress of Papyrology
August 2010, Geneva, Switzerland
2009
“Counting Christians: Onomastic Considerations and the Christianization of Fourth-Century Egypt”
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Papyrology and Early Christian Backgrounds Section
November 2009, New Orleans
“Onomastic Considerations and the Christianization of Fourth-Century Egypt”
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies, Being Christian in Egypt Section May 2009, Ottawa, Canada
“Writing Christian: Some Observations on the Identification of Early Christian Letters in Egypt.”
Kennedy Center Lecture
March 2009, Brigham Young University
2008
“Is P.Oxy. 3057 the Earliest Christian Letter?”
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Papyrology and Early Christian Backgrounds Section
November 2008, Boston
2007
“Christian Epistolarity: Some Observations on the Identification of Christian Papyrus Letters from Oxyrhynchus”
Toronto School of Theology Biblical Seminar
October 2007, Toronto, Canada
“Christians on the Move: Travel and Social-Networking in Late Antique Oxyrhynchus” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, Travel and Religion in Antiquity Seminar
May 2007, Saskatoon, Canada
2006
“Scriptural Allusions and Reminiscences in Private Christian Letters from Oxyrhynchus” Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Papyrology and Early Christian Backgrounds Section
November 2006, Washington D.C.
“Scribes and Ancient Letters: Implications for the Pauline Epistles”
The Thirty-Fifth Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium: The Writing and Compilation of the New Testament
October 2006, Brigham Young University
“Social Banditry? Galilean Banditry from Herod the Great until the Outbreak of the First Jewish Revolt against Rome”
Toronto School of Theology Biblical Seminar
February 2006, Toronto, Canada
2005
“A Jew in Celsus’ True Doctrine?”
Presented paper as recipient of the Jeremias Award for top graduate essay in New Testament and Early Christian Studies at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies
May 2005, London (Ontario), Canada
“Beware of the Bandits! The Perils of Land Travel in the Roman Empire”
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, Travel and Religion in Antiquity Seminar
May 2005, London (Ontario), Canada
2004
“A Jew in Celsus’ True Doctrine?”
Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Early Jewish-Christian Relations Section November 2004, San Antonio
2003
“Religious and Civil Identities at Roman Carthage”
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, Religious Rivalries Seminar May 2003, Halifax, Canada (With Wayne McCready)