An edition of The Oxford handbook of papyrology (2011)

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An edition of The Oxford handbook of papyrology (2011)

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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.

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Table of Contents

Writing materials in the ancient world -- Adam Bülow-Jacobsen
The finds of papyri : the archaeology of papyrology -- Hélène Cuvigny
The history of the discipline -- James G. Keenan
Conservation of ancient papyrus materials -- Jaakko Frösén
Greek and Latin writing in the papyri -- Guglielmo Cavallo
The Greek and Latin languages in the papyri -- Eleanor Dickey
Abbreviations and symbols -- Nikolaos Gonis
Practical help : chronology, geography, measures, currency, names, prosopography, and technical vocabulary -- Roger S. Bagnall
Editing a papyrus -- Paul Schubert
Archives and dossiers -- Katelijn Vandorpe
The ancient book -- William A. Johnson
Papyrology and ancient literature -- Timothy Renner
The special case of Herculaneum -- David Sider
Education in the papyri -- Raffaella Cribiore
Mathematics, science, and medicine in the papyri -- Alexander Jones
The range of documentary texts : types and categories -- Bernhard Palme
The multilingual environment of Persian and Ptolematic Egypt : Egyptian, Aramaic, and Greek documentation -- Dorothy J. Thompson
The multilingual environment of late antique Egypt : Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Persian documentation -- Jean-Luc Fournet
Arabic papyri and Islamic Egypt -- Petra M. Sijpesteijn
The papyrology of the Near East -- Jean Gascou
Writing histories from the papyri -- Todd M. Hickey
Geography and administration in Egypt (332 BCE-642 CE) -- Maria Rosaria Falivene
Law in Graeco-Roman Egypt : Hellenization, Fusion, Romanization -- Uri Yiftach-Firanko
Egyptian religion and magic in the papyri -- Willy Clarysse
The papryi and early Christianity -- David G. Martinez
Manichaeism and gnosticism in the papryi -- Cornelia Römer
The future of papyrology -- Peter van Minnen.

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Originally published: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York, Oxford
Series
[Oxford handbooks], Oxford handbooks
Other Titles
Papyrology

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Dewey Decimal Class
091
Library of Congress
Z110.P36 O98 2011, Z110.P36O98 2012

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xxi, 688 pages
Number of pages
688

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Open Library
OL28388821M
ISBN 10
0199843694
ISBN 13
9780199843695
OCLC/WorldCat
756279250

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