Bagnall, R: Oxford Handbook of Papyrology

Contributors ; Figures ; Abbreviations ; Internet Resources ; 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 ; Index

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

"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 two dozen scholars, are written in an accessible style that will be welcome to students, while even experts will enjoy the extensive bibliographies and notes.... Faculty themselves may turn to this Handbook for its excellent distillation of the current status of the field. Highly recommended."--CHOICE