Hieratic, Demotic and Greek Studies and Text Editions ― Of Making Many Books There Is No End: Festschrift in Honour of Sven P. Vleeming

This volume is a Festschrift in honour of Sven Vleeming containing the contributions of thirty-eight friends and colleagues, often renowned specialists in their respective fields. This book, which includes the editions of fifty-four new texts from Ancient Egypt that date from the 7th century BCE to the 2nd century CE, covers a very wide range of subjects in (Abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic and Greek papyrology. As such, it reflects the equally wide range of knowledge of the scholar to whom this book is dedicated.

Koenraad Donker van Heel, MA in Egyptology (1989) and PhD in Legal History (1996), both Leiden University, is University Lecturer in Demotic at the Papyrologisch Instituut (Leiden). Apart from Demotic and Ancient Egyptian Law he is also one of the very few specialists in Abnormal Hieratic worldwide, publishing documentary texts from the British Museum and the Louvre. He also likes to write books on dailylife in Ancient Egypt in his spare time.Francisca A.J. Hoogendijk, MA in Classical Languages and Culture (1980) and PhD in Greek Papyrology (2008), both Leiden University, is University Lecturer in Greek Papyrology at the Papyrologisch Instituut (Leiden). She has published Greek papyri from different collections and coordinates the on-going Berichtigungsliste der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Agypten.Cary J. Martin, MA in Egyptology (1978), Birmingham University, is Honorary Research Associate, Institute of Archaeology, University College London. His numerous publications include Demotic Papyri from the Memphite Necropolis (2009). He is co-editor of Enchoria, Zeitschrift fur Demotistik und Koptologie.