Review of Arzt-Grabner, Letters and letter writing

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Letters and letter writing.

Peter Arzt-Grabner, Letters and letter writing. Papyri and the New Testament, 2. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Pp. xxx, 455. ISBN 9783506790484.

Review by
Ezra la Roi, Ghent University. ezra.laroi@ugent.be

One of the key insights obtained by Adolf Deissmann around the turn of the twentieth century was that the papyri from Egypt show significant similarities with the New Testament, for example in representing what is usually referred to as “common Greek”[1]. In this book, Peter Arzt-Grabner shows us not only how far the similarities go between letters on Egyptian papyri and the epistles in the New Testament, but also where they differ.

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