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Professor David Thomas FBA

Classics and Ancient History

Elected 1989

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

Current post

University of Durham Emeritus Professor of Papyrology

Past appointments

University of Durham Reader; Professorial Fellow in Papyrology

1977 - 1992

University of Durham Lecturer; Senior Lecturer in Palaeography

1966 - 1977

Publications

The Oxyrhynchus papyri

David Thomas - Published in 1971-2013 by Egypt Exploration Society

Vols XXXVIII, XLIV, XLVII, L, LVII, LX,LV-LXVIII

The epistrategos in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt

David Thomas - Published in 1975, 1982 by VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften

Two Volumes

The Vindolanda writing tablets

David Thomas and Alan Bowman - Published in 1983, 1994, 2003 by British Museum Press

Three Volumes

What is religious studies?

12 Oct 2019 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.

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Robert Fowler FBA

Greek historiography and mythography; Greek epic poetry; Greek lyric poetry; History of Classical Scholarship

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Professor Greg Woolf FBA

Ancient economies, societies, civilizations. The archaeology and history of the Roman Empire and its neighbours at the very large scale

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Professor Judith Lieu FBA

The New Testament, in particular the Johannine literature; early Christianity, its literature and thought, in the Graeco-Roman and Jewish first- and second-century contexts

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