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Zusatztext ...a wonderful volume, a celebration of a vast and important discipline written by experts drawn from every part of it...the volume is well organized and well indexed; its contents document a great broadening in the scope of papyrology over the past fifty years... Informationen zum Autor Roger Bagnall is Director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. Before joining the NYU faculty in 2007, he taught classics and history at Columbia University for 33 years. He specializes in the social and economic history of Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique Egypt and directs the excavations at Amheida in the Dakhla Oasis in Egypt. Klappentext 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. In The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology twenty-seven experts provide a comprehensive and authoritative guide to understanding this ancient documentary evidence. Zusammenfassung 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. In The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology twenty-seven experts provide a comprehensive and authoritative guide to understanding this ancient documentary evidence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, Useful Web sites 1: Adam Bülow-Jacobsen: Writing Materials in the Ancient World, 2: Héléne Cuvigny: The Finds of Papyri 3: James G. Keenan: The History of the Discipline, 4: Jaakko Frösén: Conservation of Ancient Papyrus Materials 5: Guglielmo Cavallo: Greek and Latin Writing in the Papyri, 6: Eleanor Dickey: The Greek and Latin Languages in the Papyri 7: Nikolaos Gonis: Abbreviations and Symbols, 8: Roger S. Bagnall: Practical Help 9: Paul Schubert: Editing a Papyrus, 10: Archives and Dossiers, Katelijn Vandorpe 11: William A. Johnson: The Ancient Book, 12: Timothy T. Renner: Papyrology and Ancient Literature 13: David Sider: The Special Case of Herculaneum 14: Raffaella Cribiore: Education in the Papyri 15: Alexander Jones: Mathematics, Science and Medicine in the Papyri, 16: Bernhard Palme: The Range of Documentary Texts 17: Dorothy J. Thompson: The Multilingual Environment of Persian and Ptolemaic Egypt, 18: Jean-Luc Fournet: The Multilingual Environment of Late Antique Egypt 19: Petra M. Sijpesteijn: Arabic Papyri and Islamic Egypt, 20: Jean Gascou: The Papyrology of the Near East 21: Todd M. Hickey: Writing Histories from the Papyri, 22: Maria Rosaria Falivene: Geography and Administration in Egypt, 23: Uri Yiftach-Firanko: Law in Greco-Roman Egypt, 24: Willy Clarysse: Egyptian Religion and Magic in the Papyri 25: David G. Martinez: Christianity in the Papyri, 26: Manichaeism and Gnosticism in the Papyri, Cornelia R¿mer 27: Peter van Minnen: The Future of Papyrology, List of figures ...
