Documentary sources in ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman economic history

By Michael Jursa, Heather D. Baker

Subjects: History, Historia, Economic history, Economic conditions, Egypt, economic conditions, Coptic manuscripts (Papyri), Coptic inscriptions, Sources, Rome, economic conditions, Ekonomisk historia, Coptic language, Ekonomiska förhållanden, Texts, Babylonia, Coptic manuscripts, Manichaeism

Description: "This volume breaks new ground in approaching the Ancient Economy by bringing together documentary sources from Mesopotamia and the Greco-Roman world. Addressing textual corpora that have traditionally been studied separately, the collected papers overturn the conventional view of a fundamental divide between the economic institutions of these two regions. The premise is that, while controlling for differences, texts from either cultural setting can be brought to bear on the other and can shed light, through their use as proxy data, on such questions as economic mentalities and market development"--