Full title: The Oxford handbook of papyrology / edited by Roger S. Bagnall.

Author/creator: Bagnall, Roger S.

Date: 2009..

Call Numbers: N091/98

Record Identifier: 74Vv7ZWvWGWy

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xxi, 688 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm., 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, prosopogoraphy, 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 Ptolemaic 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 papyri and early Christianity / David G. Martinez -- Manichaeism and Gnosticism in the papyri / Cornelia Römer -- The future of papyrology / Peter van Minnen.

Publishers: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Notes: [Oxford handbooks] Series from jacket flap. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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