Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Chapter One 'Why am I doing what I do?' Introducing my Work on Manuscripts and Ordering the Essays according to Topics and Approach

Chapter Two 'Parchment or Papyrus?': Some Remarks about the Signi? cance of Writing Material when Assessing Manuscripts

Chapter Three Ad fontes—The Bene? t of the Consultation of Original Manuscripts as for instance P.Vindob.G 31974

Chapter Four P.Oxy. V 840—Amulet or Miniature Codex? Principal and Additional Remarks on Two Terms

Chapter Five P.Vindob.G 2325: The So-called Fayûm-Gospel—Re-edition and Some Critical Conclusions

Chapter Six P.Vindob.G 35835 (former 26132a)—Notes on the Last Judgment

Chapter Seven (Il)Literacy in Non-literary Papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt: Further Aspects to the Educational Ideal in Ancient Literary Sources and Modern Times

Chapter Eight 'Slow writers'—ΒΡΑΔΕΩΣ ΓΡΑΦΟΝΤΕΣ: What, How Much, and How Did They Write?

Chapter Nine 'Uneducated', 'ignorant', or even 'illiterate'? Aspects and Background for an Understanding of ΑΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΟΙ (and ΙΔΙΩΤΑΙ) in Acts 4:13

Chapter Ten John 7:15b: 'Knowing letters' and (il)literacy

Chapter Eleven The Lending of Books in the Fourth Century C.E. P.Oxy. LXIII 4365—A Letter on Papyrus and the Reciprocal Lending of Literature Having Become Apocryphal

Chapter Twelve An Obligation from Contract Law in Philemon 19 Characteristic Style and Juridical Background

Chapter Thirteen 7Q5—Status Quaestionis and Fundamental Remarks to Qualify the Discussion of the Papyrus Fragment

Index of Ancient Texts

Manuscripts (Papyri, Ostraca, Tablets et al.)

Index of (Selected) Modern Authors

Subject Index