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David Harper

History Student • New Testament & Second Temple Judaism • FAIR Conference Speaker

David Harper

David Harper studies history at BYU–Idaho. Originally from New Mexico, he served a two-year proselyting mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Richmond, Virginia Mission.

Harper helped found the BYU–Idaho Study & Faith Society, an organization devoted to faith-building scholarship. His academic interests include apologetics, Second Temple Judaism, New Testament history, and Pauline theology, and he enjoys studying ancient Greek and Hebrew.

He also runs a growing community of nearly two thousand missionaries and returned missionaries focused on promoting gospel scholarship.

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Lincoln Blumell

Lincoln Blumell

Early Christianity Scholar • New Testament Scholar • FAIR Conference Speaker

Lincoln Blumell

Lincoln Blumell received a BA with honors in Classical and Early Christian Studies and an MA in Religious Studies, with an emphasis in ancient Christianity, from the University of Calgary. He earned an MSt in Jewish Studies from Christ Church, Oxford, and a PhD in Religious Studies, specializing in early Christianity, from the University of Toronto.

Before joining the faculty at Brigham Young University, Blumell held a visiting assistant professorship in the Department of Classical Studies at Tulane University in New Orleans.

His teaching and scholarship focus on the New Testament, Second Temple Judaism, and the history of ancient Christianity through the Byzantine period. His particular research interests include early Christianity in Egypt, ancient Christian letters, and Greek papyrology.

Blumell has taught courses on the New Testament, the Book of Mormon, Second Temple Judaism, the history of ancient Christianity from AD 100–400, persecution and martyrdom in ancient Christianity, Egypt in the Roman Empire, and classical mythology.

His research draws on several ancient and modern languages. He reads Biblical Hebrew, Sahidic Coptic, Classical Greek, Latin, French, and German.

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