Article and Reviews available on JSTOR, 2012-2013 sv papyri

Review
Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East (Sather Classical Lectures 69) by R.S. BAGNALL
Review by: J.A. Baird
The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 132 (2012), pp. 207-208

Review
Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East by Roger S. Bagnall
Review by: Alan Millard
Classical Philology, Vol. 107, No. 4 (October 2012), pp. 375-379

Review
Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East. (Sather Classical Lectures 69.) by R.S. Bagnall
Review by: RUTH D. WHITEHOUSE
The Classical Review, New Series, Vol. 62, No. 2 (OCTOBER 2012), pp. 570-573

Review
Culture in Pieces: Essays on Ancient Texts in Honour of Peter Parsons by D. Obbink, R. Rutherford
Review by: Max Goldman
Mnemosyne, Fourth Series, Vol. 65, Fasc. 4/5 (2012), pp. 801-804

Review
Greek Manuscripts at Princeton, Sixth to Nineteenth Century: A Descriptive Catalogue by Sofia Kotzabassi, Nancy Patterson Ševčenko, Don Skemer
Review by: Leslie Brubaker
Speculum, Vol. 87, No. 2 (APRIL 2012), pp. 575-577

Article
Galen and the Library at Antium: The State of the Question
Pier Luigi Tucci
Classical Philology, Vol. 108, No. 3 (July 2013), pp. 240-251

Article
Ancient Science in a Digital Age
Daryn Lehoux
Isis, Vol. 104, No. 1 (March 2013), pp. 111-118

Article
THE PHYSIOLOGY OF ANCIENT GREEK READING
Alessandro Vatri
The Classical Quarterly, New Series, Vol. 62, No. 2 (DECEMBER 2012), pp. 633-647

New Testament
Article
The Earliest Manuscript Title of Matthew's Gospel (BnF Suppl. gr. 1120 ii 3 / 𝔓 4 )
Simon Gathercole
Novum Testamentum, Vol. 54, Fasc. 3 (2012), pp. 209-235

Article
P.Oxy. 2383 (P 69 ) One More Time
Thomas A. Wayment
Novum Testamentum, Vol. 54, Fasc. 3 (2012), pp. 288-292

Review
Reading New Testament Papyri in Context—Lire les papyrus du Nouveau Testament dans leur contexte. (= BETL 242) by Claire Clivaz, Jean Zumstein, Jenny Read-Heimerdinger, Julie Paik
Review by: Juan Chapa
Novum Testamentum, Vol. 54, Fasc. 4 (2012), pp. 399-400

Review
Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Jewish Daily Life in the Time of Jesus by Jodi Magness
Review by: Zeba Crook
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. 80, No. 1 (MARCH 2012), pp. 246-248

Article
Greek Commentaries
Francesca Schironi
Dead Sea Discoveries, Vol. 19, No. 3, The Rise of Commentary: Commentary Texts in Ancient Near Eastern, Greek, Roman and Jewish Cultures (2012), pp. 399-441

Article
The Use of Greek at Qumran: Manuscript and Epigraphic Evidence for a Marginalized Language
Matthew Richey
Dead Sea Discoveries, Vol. 19, No. 2 (2012), pp. 177-197

Treatments of language use at Qumran have tended to marginalize the evidence for Greek language use among the Covenanters, on the basis of the observation that far more of the surviving texts are written in Hebrew or Aramaic. This paper examines the meager evidence for Greek use at the site—including the sole Greek documentary text, 4Q350, recently published epigraphic evidence, and the enigmatic Greek letters of the Copper Scroll (3Q15)—in an attempt to recognize the importance of Greek for everyday intramural business and for maintaining economic contact with exterior communities. Manuscript and epigraphic survivals demonstrate that the Covenanters' use of Greek can be characterized as primarily occurring in the context of day-to-day economic transactions, business, and trade. The evidence suggests that, like the Bar Kokhba rebels, the Covenanters attempted to "purify" their discourse and way of life, but economic realities nevertheless encouraged periodic communication in the Greek language.

Article
The Qumran Pesharim as Biblical Commentaries Historical Context and Lines of Development
Daniel A. Machiela
Dead Sea Discoveries, Vol. 19, No. 3, The Rise of Commentary: Commentary Texts in Ancient Near Eastern, Greek, Roman and Jewish Cultures (2012), pp. 313-362

Past study of the pesharim from Qumran as biblical commentaries has comprised a number of scholarly approaches and proposed lines of influence. Two major areas of focus in this regard have been various ancient Near Eastern (Mesopotamian and Egyptian) texts on the one hand, and, more recently, Hellenistic commentaries on the other. Only intermittently have earlier studies included close examination of the modi operandi and content of this literature in comparison with the pesharim. This article undertakes a more comprehensive and detailed comparison of the pesharim with relevant ancient Near Eastern and Hellenistic texts than found in earlier studies, attempting to identify salient similarities and differences. While the pesharim bear the unmistakable influence of Jewish Aramaic dream-vision interpretation at the micro-exegetical level, this connection fails to adequately account for the pesharim as whole texts. Here Hellenistic commentaries may have proven influential, though the correlation is far from complete and the Egyptian Demotic Chronicle warns against too confidently drawing lines of direct influence.

HISTORY
Review
Ptolemy II Philadelphus and his World. (Mnemosyne Supplements 300.) by P. McKechnie, P. Guillaume
Review by: SHEILA L. AGER
The Classical Review, New Series, Vol. 62, No. 2 (OCTOBER 2012), pp. 564-566

Article
Marriage or Mirage? The Phantom Wedding of Cleopatra and Antony
Sheila L. Ager
Classical Philology, Vol. 108, No. 2 (April 2013), pp. 139-155
see esp. § 4. The Evidence of Papyrology and Numismatics

Review
5. Symposium zur ägyptischen Königsideologie / 5th Symposium on Egyptian Royal Ideology. Palace and Temple. Architecture — Decoration — Ritual. Cambridge, July 16 th —17 th , 2007. Königtum, Staat und Gesellschaft früher Hochkulturen 4, 2 by Rolf Gundlach, Kate Spence
Review by: Joachim Friedrich Quack
Die Welt des Orients, Bd. 42, H. 1 (2012), pp. 128-130

Review
EGYPTIAN WARRIORS: THE "MACHIMOI" OF HERODOTUS AND THE PTOLEMAIC ARMY
CHRISTELLE FISCHER-BOVET
The Classical Quarterly, New Series, Vol. 63, No. 1 (MAY 2013), pp. 209-236

Article
Bureaucratic Language in the Correspondence between Pliny and Trajan
KATHLEEN M. COLEMAN
Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-), Vol. 142, No. 2 (Autumn 2012), pp. 189-238

Article
SOLDIERS AND EQUESTRIAN RANK IN THE THIRD CENTURY AD
Caillan Davenport
Papers of the British School at Rome, Vol. 80 (2012), pp. 89-123

LITERATURE
Article
Reading Greek Poetry Aloud: Evidence from the Bacchylides Papyri
Gregory Nagy
Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, New Series, Vol. 64, No. 1 (2000), pp. 7-28

Article
New Menander Mosaics from Antioch
Kathryn Gutzwiller, Ömer Çelik
American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 116, No. 4 (October 2012), pp. 573-623

Article
ARCHILOCHUS THE 'ANTI-HERO'? HEROISM, FLIGHT AND VALUES IN HOMER AND THE NEW ARCHILOCHUS FRAGMENT (P.OXY LXIX 4708)
L.A. SWIFT
The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 132 (2012), pp. 139-155

This article investigates how flight in battle is presented in the newly discovered Archilochus fragment (P.Oxy LXIX 4708) and compares it to the Homeric treatment of the issue. It argues that the traditional dichotomy between scholars who see Archilochus as 'subverting' epic values and those who see him as continuous with them is too simplistic, and that the new poem provides clear evidence of a more nuanced approach to epic material. The fragment's approach reflects many of the subtleties found in Homeric attitudes to flight, and in this respect we see Archilochus using the cultural authority of epic to add weight to his argument. Nevertheless, the choice of the Telephus myth, which tells the story of a mistaken conflict, is an ironic one, and the narrative foregrounds the ways in which the Achaeans at Mysia fall short of heroic norms and perhaps casts aspersions on the contemporary scenario to which the mythological conflict appears to be compared. Hence the poem contains competing strands of consolation, celebration of an aristeia and mockery in a way which demonstrates Archilochus' varied and subtle relationship to epic.

Article
The Archaeology of the Epigrams from the "Tabulae Iliacae": Adaptation, Allusion, Alteration
David Petrain
Mnemosyne, Fourth Series, Vol. 65, Fasc. 4/5 (2012), pp. 597-635

Article
Ares AIΔHΛOΣ: On the Text of Iliad 5.757 and 5.872
Joel Christensen
Classical Philology, Vol. 107, No. 3 (July 2012), pp. 230-238

Review
Multitextuality in the Homeric "Iliad". The Witness of the Ptolemaic Papyri. (Hellenic Studies 43.) by G.D. Bird
Review by: ANTONY MAKRINOS
The Classical Review, New Series, Vol. 62, No. 1 (APRIL 2012), pp. 8-10

Review
Callimaco. "Aitia". Libro terzo e quarto. (Biblioteca di Studi Antichi 92.) by G. Massimilla
Review by: PETER E. KNOX
The Classical Review, New Series, Vol. 62, No. 1 (APRIL 2012), pp. 98-100

Review
—Images and Texts on the "Artemidorus Papyrus". Working Papers on P.Artemid. (St. John's College Oxford, 2008). (Historia Einzelschriften 214.) by K. Brodersen, J. Elsner
—Il papiro di Artemidoro. Convegno Internazionale di Studio Rovereto, 29—30 aprile 2009. (Atti della Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati, ser. 8, vol. 9, A, fasc. 2.2.) by L. Canfora
—Artemidorus Ephesius. P.Artemid. sive Artemidorus personatus. Edidit brevique commentario instruxit Societas emunctae naris. (Ekdosis 7.) by L. Canfora
Review by: DOMINIC RATHBONE
The Classical Review, New Series, Vol. 62, No. 2 (OCTOBER 2012), pp. 442-448

Arabic Texts
Review
Texts from the Early Islamic Period of Egypt: Muslims and Christians at Their First Encounter. Arabic Papyri from the Erzherzog Rainer Collection, Austrian National Library, Vienna. (Nilus: Studien zur Kultur Ägyptens und des Vorderen Orients 15.) by Lejla Demiri, Cornelia Römer
Review by: Wadad Kadi
Speculum, Vol. 87, No. 3 (JULY 2012), pp. 861-862

Herculaneum
Review
Miscellanea Papyrologica Herculanensia. Volumen I. (Biblioteca di Studi Antichi 93.) by A. Antoni, G. Arrighetti, M. I. Bertagna, D. Delattre
Review by: SIMON TRÉPANIER
The Classical Review, New Series, Vol. 62, No. 1 (APRIL 2012), pp. 102-104

Review
Miscellanea Papyrologica Herculanensia I (Biblioteca di Studi Antichi 93) by A. ANTONI, G. ARRIGHETTI, M. BERTAGNA, D. DELATTRE
Review by: Richard Janko
The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 132 (2012), pp. 182-183

Review
Philodemus, "On Death". (Writings from the Greco-Roman World 29.) by W. B. Henry
Review by: JEFF FISH
The Classical Review, New Series, Vol. 62, No. 1 (APRIL 2012), pp. 105-107

The WESTERN EMPIRE
Review
Magical Practice in the Latin West: Papers from the International Conference Held at the University of Zaragoza, 30 Sept.–1 Oct. 2005. (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World.) by Richard L. Gordon, Franciscó Marco Simón
Review by: Naomi Janowitz
Numen, Vol. 59, No. 4 (2012), pp. 406-409

Review Article
Roman Inscriptions 2006-2010
ALISON E. COOLEY, BENET SALWAY
The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 102 (2012), pp. 172-286

Article
'Interpreting' at Vindolanda: Commercial and Linguistic Mediation in the Roman Army
Rachel Mairs
Britannia, Vol. 43 (2012), pp. 17-28

Article
Note from the Roman Palace at Fishbourne (Sussex): A Roman Magic Lead Figurine?
Magali Bailliot, Robert Symmons
Britannia, Vol. 43 (2012), pp. 249-260

COMPARANDA
Article
On the "Gesta municipalia" and the Public Validation of Documents in Frankish Europe
Warren C. Brown
Speculum, Vol. 87, No. 2 (APRIL 2012), pp. 345-375

Article
The Economic History of the Medieval Middle East: Strengths, Weaknesses, and the Challenges Ahead
Shatzmiller, Maya.
International Journal of Middle East Studies 44.3 (Aug 2012): 529-531.

Abstract (summary)
One may say that our field has had a respectable crop of scholars engaged in research and numerous important publications to its credit. Past investigations of the agricultural sector have included excellent coverage of taxation systems and tax rates, good coverage of cultivation methods and crops, not very thorough coverage of landholding patterns, and almost no studies of productivity rates. For the manufacturing sector we have very good coverage of manufacturing techniques and good coverage of labor organization and division of labor but little on the productivity rates of individual sectors such as textiles, on apprenticeship and wages for either skilled or unskilled labor, or on the relationship of wages to prices. We have important studies on both regional and long-distance trade and commerce, including on routes and trade-related institutions and on tools of trade such as credit and investment partnerships (qirÄd/commenda), and related studies regarding urbanization, exchange, and markets. The auxiliary fields of numismatics and archeology have yielded important studies on coinage and minting and on settlement patterns that are likely to improve our grasp of the economic history of the medieval Middle East. We also have at our disposal volumes of statistical data, collected from literary and documentary sources, on prices, wages, commodities, weights, measures, and coins. Several online projects scrutinizing data from primary sources, mainly papyri and Geniza documents, yield more figures, though mostly on the economic history of early Islamic societies. Among the lacunae are studies related to topics such as economic institutions, property rights, standards of living and inequality, GDP estimations, sector productivity, market integration, exogenous shocks, and economic growth.

Article
ORIENTATION IN THREE SPHERES: MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN BOUNDARY CLAUSES IN LATIN, GREEK AND ARABIC
Alex Metcalfe
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Sixth Series, Vol. 22 (2012), pp. 37-55

This paper investigates the development of land registry traditions in the medieval Mediterranean by examining a distinctive aspect of Latin, Greek and Arabic formularies used in boundary clauses. The paper makes particular reference to Islamic and Norman Sicily. The argument begins by recalling that the archetypal way of defining limits according to Classical Roman land surveyors was to begin ab oriente. Many practices from Antiquity were discontinued in the Latin West, but the idea of starting with or from the East endured in many cases where boundaries were assigned cardinal directions. In the Byzantine Empire, the 'Roman' model was prescribed and emulated by Greek surveyors and scribes too. But in the Arab-Muslim Mediterranean, lands were defined with the southern limit first. This contrast forms the basis of a typology that can be tested against charter evidence in frontier zones — for example, in twelfth-century Sicily, which had been under Byzantine, Muslim and Norman rulers. It concludes that, under the Normans, private documents drawn up in Arabic began mainly with the southern limit following the 'Islamic' model. However, Arabic descriptions of crown lands started mainly in the 'Romano-Byzantine' way. These findings offer a higher resolution view of early Norman governance and suggest that such boundary definitions of the royal chancery could not have been based on older ones written in the Islamic period.