[Bilimsel Haber] WORKSHOP- Private & Business Letters in Middle East: Zurich, April 21-22, 2007

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WORKSHOP- Private & Business Letters in Middle East: Zurich, April
21-22, 2007

Posted by: Andreas Kaplony <kaplony at oriental.unizh.ch>

Workshop on Private and Business Letters in the Middle East - Zurich,
April 21st - 22nd 2007

Over the last years, interest in private and business letters from the
Middle East has remarkably increased. Fundamental progress has been
done in different disciplines, but exchange has been scarce. This
workshop is an opportunity to come in touch with specialists from
Arabic, Bactrian, Coptic, Greek, Pahlavi, Sabaic and other disciplines.

Speakers will give a 30 minutes introduction followed by a discussion.
After a short general overview concerning the state of research of
papyrology in the respecting fields, speakers focus on their own
approaches to the material, their results and questions. Points that
will be addressed are the language of the documents (compared to
literary or epigraphic evidence), development of the genres,
epistolary traditions, formulae and strategies etc. We hope to reach
preliminary conclusions on possible influences and ways of tradition.

more: http://www.ori.unizh.ch/research/papyrology/workshopletters.html.





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