Egypt
University of California Press
Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East
Roger S. Bagnall
December 2010
- Book Review: Arqueología De La Palabra
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Roger Wright) Ana Rodríguez Mayorgas, Arqueología de la palabra: oralidad y escritura en el mundo antiguo. Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra, 2010. Ana Rodríguez Mayorgas works at the Instituto de Historiografía...
- Book Review: Early Christian Books In Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reveiw by Benjamin Garstad) Roger S. Bagnall, Early Christian Books in Egypt. Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009. Roger Bagnall is one of the foremost authorities on the written remains of Roman Egypt and...
- Forthcoming: Early Christian Books In Egypt Roger S. Bagnall
What's New in Papyrology For the past hundred years, much has been written about the early editions of Christian texts discovered in the region that was once Roman Egypt. Scholars have cited these papyrus manuscripts--containing the Bible and other...
- New Book: The Oxford Handbook Of Papyrology
What's New In Papyrology By Roger Bagnall Description Thousands of texts, written over a period of three thousand years on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, Persian, and other languages, have transformed our knowledge...
- New Book: The Disappearance Of Writing Systems
Equinox Books The Disappearance of Writing Systems: Perspectives on Literacy and Communication Edited by: John Baines, John Bennet, Stephen Houston Description This volume gathers papers from the first conference ever to be held on the disappearance of...
Egypt
New Book: Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East
University of California Press
Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East
Roger S. Bagnall
December 2010
Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world—that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution—has perished. Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, leading papyrologist Roger S. Bagnall convincingly argues, however, that ordinary people—from Britain to Egypt to Afghanistan—used writing in their daily lives far more extensively than has been recognized. Marshalling new and little-known evidence, including remarkable graffiti recently discovered in Smyrna, Bagnall presents a fascinating analysis of writing in different segments of society. His book offers a new picture of literacy in the ancient world in which Aramaic rivals Greek and Latin as a great international language, and in which many other local languages develop means of written expression alongside these metropolitan tongues.
- Book Review: Arqueología De La Palabra
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Roger Wright) Ana Rodríguez Mayorgas, Arqueología de la palabra: oralidad y escritura en el mundo antiguo. Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra, 2010. Ana Rodríguez Mayorgas works at the Instituto de Historiografía...
- Book Review: Early Christian Books In Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reveiw by Benjamin Garstad) Roger S. Bagnall, Early Christian Books in Egypt. Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009. Roger Bagnall is one of the foremost authorities on the written remains of Roman Egypt and...
- Forthcoming: Early Christian Books In Egypt Roger S. Bagnall
What's New in Papyrology For the past hundred years, much has been written about the early editions of Christian texts discovered in the region that was once Roman Egypt. Scholars have cited these papyrus manuscripts--containing the Bible and other...
- New Book: The Oxford Handbook Of Papyrology
What's New In Papyrology By Roger Bagnall Description Thousands of texts, written over a period of three thousand years on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, Persian, and other languages, have transformed our knowledge...
- New Book: The Disappearance Of Writing Systems
Equinox Books The Disappearance of Writing Systems: Perspectives on Literacy and Communication Edited by: John Baines, John Bennet, Stephen Houston Description This volume gathers papers from the first conference ever to be held on the disappearance of...