The Oxford handbook of papyrology
By: edited by Roger S. Bagnall.
Contributors: Bagnall, Roger S.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195178388
Subjects: Manuscripts (Papyri); Paleography; History, Ancient -- Historiography; Middle East -- Historiography
Other titles: Handbook of papyrology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Writing materials in the ancient world / Adam Bülow-Jacobsen; title: The finds of papyri : the archaeology of papyrology / Hélène Cuvigny; title: The history of the discipline / James G. Keenan; title: Conservation of ancient papyrus materials / Jaakko Frsn; title: Greek and Latin writing in the papyri / Guglielmo Cavallo; title: The Greek and Latin languages in the papyri / Eleanor Dickey; title: Abbreviations and symbols / Nikolaos Gonis; title: Practical help : chronology, metrology, currency, geography, names, prosopography, and technical vocabulary / Roger S. Bagnall; title: Editing a papyrus / Paul Schubert; title: Archives and dossiers / Katelijn Vandorpe; title: The ancient book / William A. Johnson; title: Papyrology and ancient literature / Timothy T. Renner; title: The special case of Herculaneum / David Sider; title: Education in the papyri / Raffaella Cribiore; title: Mathematics, science and medicine in the papyri / Alexander Jones; title: The range of documentary texts : types and categories / Bernhard Palme; title: The multilingual environment of Persian and Ptolemaic Egypt : Egyptian,  Aramaic, and Greek documentation / Dorothy J. Thompson; title: The multilingual environment of late antique Egypt : Greek, Latin,  Coptic, and Persian documentation / Jean-Luc Fournet; title: Arabic papyri and Islamic Egypt / Petra M. Sijpesteijn; title: The papyrology of the Near East / Jean Gascou; title: Writing histories from the papyri / Todd M. Hickey; title: Geography and administration in Egypt / Maria Rosaria Falivene; title: Law in Greco-Roman Egypt : Hellenization, Fusion, Romanization / Uri Yiftach-Firanko; title: Egyptian religion and magic in the papyri / Willy Clarysse; title: Christianity in the papyri / David G. Martinez; title: Manichaeism and Gnosticism in the papyri / Cornelia Römer; title: The future of papyrology / Peter van Minnen.