"At the volume's heart are the 37 new texts, among them land leases, exchanges, cessions, and sales as well as documents related to taxes, a will (diatheke), a gift after death (donatio mortis causa), agreements concerning slaves, church property, and workmen (?), official correspondence, a list of garments, accounts, and texts of uncertain character. Each text has an extensive introductory section, providing a physical description of the papyrus, the prosopographic information gained from the text, a discussion of the criteria that have been used to establish its proposed date, as well as comments on the reconstruction of damaged texts. This testifies to the arduous task the editors have accomplished in conserving the texts and relating them to one another. Each text is translated and commented on, and in some cases a synoptic table of the reconstructed order of text fragments is added. . . .The editors have accomplished an exceptional task in reconstructing, deciphering, and interpreting these texts. Their results are crucial for every scholar interested in Petra's society and the edition leaves little to be desired." --Stefanie Schmidt, Basel/Zurich, Department of Ancient History, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2019.07.18