Table of Contents

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Introduction, Roger S. Bagnall
1. Writing Materials in the Ancient World, Adam Bulow-Jacobsen
2. The Finds of Papyri, Helene Cuvigny
3. The History of the Discipline, James G. Keenan
4. Conservation of Ancient Papyrus Materials, Jaakko Frosen
5. Greek and Latin Writing in the Papyri, Guglielmo Cavallo
6. The Greek and Latin Languages in the Papyri, Eleanor Dickey
7. Abbreviations and Symbols, Nikolaos Gonis
8. Practical Help, Roger S. Bagnall
9. Editing a Papyrus, Paul Schubert
10. Archives and Dossiers, Katelijn Vandorpe
11. The Ancient Book, William A. Johnson
12. Papyrology and Ancient Literature, Timothy T. Renner
13. The Special Case of Herculaneum, David Sider
14. Education in the Papyri, Raffaella Cribiore
15. Mathematics, Science and Medicine in the Papyri, Alexander Jones
16. The Range of Documentary Texts, Bernhard Palme
17. The Multilingual Environment of Persian and Ptolemaic Egypt, Dorothy J. Thompson
18. The Multilingual Environment of Late Antique Egypt , Jean-Luc Fournet
19. Arabic Papyri and Islamic Egypt, Petra M. Sijpesteijn
20. The Papyrology of the Near East, Jean Gascou
21. Writing Histories from the Papyri, Todd M. Hickey
22. Geography and Administration in Egypt, Maria Rosaria Falivene
23. Law in Greco-Roman Egypt, Uri Yiftach-Firanko
24. Egyptian Religion and Magic in the Papyri, Willy Clarysse
25. Christianity in the Papyri, David G. Martinez
26. Manichaeism and Gnosticism in the Papyri, Cornelia Romer
27. The Future of Papyrology, Peter van Minnen
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About the Author

Roger S. Bagnall is Director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and Professor of Ancient History at New York University.

Reviews

"The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology is a wonderful volume--a celebration of a vast and important discipline written by experts drawn from every part of it. This immense progress in our knowledge is laid out lucidly and presented in a very lively manner by a team of international contributors. The volume is well organized and well-indexed; its contents document a great broadening in the scope of papyrology over the past fifty years." --Richard Janko,
Times Literary Supplement
"This unique work goes beyond the chapter-long introduction in David Schaps's Handbook for Classical Research, providing practical advice on and approaches to fundamentals such as chronology, ancient hands, writing materials, and abbreviations, along with thematic chapters on topics such as education, geography, science/medicine, and specific time periods or regions. The chapters, contributed by more than two dozen scholars, are written by more than
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