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Professor David Thomas FBA

Classics and Ancient History

Elected 1989

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1989
Subjects
Classics
Website
https://www.dur.ac.uk/classics/staff/?id=6231

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Papyrology, University of Durham

Past appointments

University of Durham Reader, Professorial Fellow in Papyrology

Jan 1977 - Jan 1992

University of Durham Lecturer, Senior Lecturer in Palaeography

Jan 1966 - Jan 1977

Publications

The Oxyrhynchus papyri (vols XXXVIII, XLIV, XLVII, L, LVII, LX,LV-LXVIII) 1971-2013

The epistrategos in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt (2 vols) 1975, 1982

The Vindolanda writing tablets (2 vols) 1983, 1994

What is religious studies?

Professor David Thomas FBA

Professor David Thomas FBA explains the difference between theology and religious studies, and why these subjects remain central to contemporary life.

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