The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology

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.

• Introduction, ; Useful Web sites ; 1. Writing Materials in the Ancient World, ; 2. The Finds of Papyri ; 3. The History of the Discipline, ; 4. Conservation of Ancient Papyrus Materials ; 5. Greek and Latin Writing in the Papyri, ; 6. The Greek and Latin Languages in the Papyri ; 7. Abbreviations and Symbols, ; 8. Practical Help ; 9. Editing a Papyrus, ; 10. Archives and Dossiers, Katelijn Vandorpe ; 11. The Ancient Book, ; 12. Papyrology and Ancient Literature ; 13. The Special Case of Herculaneum ; 14. Education in the Papyri ; 15. Mathematics, Science and Medicine in the Papyri, ; 16. The Range of Documentary Texts ; 17. The Multilingual Environment of Persian and Ptolemaic Egypt, ; 18. The Multilingual Environment of Late Antique Egypt ; 19. Arabic Papyri and Islamic Egypt, ; 20. The Papyrology of the Near East ; 21. Writing Histories from the Papyri, ; 22. Geography and Administration in Egypt, ; 23. Law in Greco-Roman Egypt, ; 24. Egyptian Religion and Magic in the Papyri ; 25. Christianity in the Papyri, ; 26. Manichaeism and Gnosticism in the Papyri, Cornelia R"mer ; 27. The Future of Papyrology, ; List of figures

...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...