The Oxford handbook of papyrology
By: edited by Roger S. Bagnall
Series: [Oxford handbooks]; Oxford handbooks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9780199843695
Subjects: Historiography; Manuscripts (Papyri); Ancient History; Paleography; Papyrologie
Other titles: Papyrology
Description: Thousands of documentary and literary texts written on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Persian, have transformed our knowledge of many aspects of life in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Here experts provide a comprehensive guide to understanding this ancient documentary evidence.
Notes: Originally published: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Frösén; 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, geography, measures, currency, 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 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 Ptolematic 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 (332 BCE-642 CE)  -- Maria Rosaria Falivene; title: Law in Graeco-Roman Egypt : Hellenization, Fusion, Romanization  -- Uri Yiftach-Firanko; title: Egyptian religion and magic in the papyri  -- Willy Clarysse; title: The papryi and early Christianity  -- David G. Martinez; title: Manichaeism and gnosticism in the papryi  -- Cornelia Römer; title: The future of papyrology -- Peter van Minnen.