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I'm your host, Kerry Mielstein, and I'm so happy to have with me today, my colleague and good friend, Dr. Lincoln Blumel.

Lincoln is in the professor in the same department I'm in, ancient scripture department.

He's also the head of our graduate program there.

He did his undergraduate work at the University of Calgary, if I'm remembering, right?

Is that correct?

That's correct, yeah.

Where I think he holds the distinction.

I believe he's the only person on our faculty who was a starting quarterback in college.

But he was a quarterback there. And then he went on to do his

graduate work at the University of Toronto, which is where I met him in early Christian studies

and Greek and so on. Is that my getting it all right? I haven't looked anything up. A little stop

over to England in between, but yeah. Oh, yeah, that's right. Time at Oxford. He was, got a master stop over to england in between but yeah oh yeah that's right time at oxford

he was uh he got a master's in oxford uh and uh then at university of toronto and then he went to

uh oh or two lane is that right i definitely yeah i taught at two lane the classics department before i came

over to the y so yeah yeah Yeah. Well, welcome, Lincoln.

Tell us more about yourself.

Yeah, well, I guess just, yeah, a professor there, BYU, you really specialize in early Christianity

up until about the fifth century.

And in that period, do a lot of work on Christianity in Egypt and do a lot with Greek and Coptic paparology

and epigraphy. And so, in fact, I'm doing some of that right now. Yeah, that's exactly right.

It's going to say, well, one of the ways they've gotten to know Lincoln really well is that he

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