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Publications of William Johnson    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. Johnson, WA. Punctuation, Iota Adscript, and Nu-movable in Ancient Literary Bookrolls. Trismegistos Online Publications, 2025.  [abs]
  2.  Oxford Handbook to the Second Sophistic. Edited by Johnson, W; Richter, D. Oxford University Press, 2017.
  3. Johnson, W. The Essential Herodotus. Oxford University Press, 2016.
  4. Johnson, WA. Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire: A Study of Elite Communities. Oxford University Press, May, 2010. 1-288 pp. [doi]  [abs]
  5. Johnson, W. Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome. Edited by Johnson, WA; Parker, H. Oxford University Press, 2009. 1-448 pp. [doi]  [abs] [author's comments]
  6. Johnson, WA. Bookrolls and scribes in oxyrhynchus. University of Toronto Press, January, 2003. 1-414 pp.  [abs] [author's comments]

Articles

  1. Johnson, WA; Wagner, N. "Papyrus Bookrolls with Jewish and Christian Content." Journal of Biblical Literature (2026).  [abs]
  2. Johnson, W. "From Bookroll to Codex." The Manuscript across Pre-modern Eurasia.. (2025).  [abs]
  3. Johnson, WA. "Typological Catalogue of the ancient Roman Scribal Tool Known as a Bone Rule." Journal of Open Archaeology Data 11 (January, 2023). [doi]  [abs]
  4. Johnson, WA. "The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Classicist's View." Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 144 (January, 2023): 488-505. [doi]
  5. Johnson, WA. "Reading for Efficiency in Ancient Rome: THE CASE OF PLINY THE ELDER." Reception Texts Readers Audiences History 15 (January, 2023): 15-23. [doi]  [abs]
  6. Johnson, W. "Scribal Tools of the Trade: Bone Rules, Dividers, and Lamps as Writing Aids." segno e testo (2023).
  7. Johnson, WA. "A TRIFLE, REPRISED: BRITISH LIBRARY SCHOOL TABLET ADD MS 34186(1)(2)." BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PAPYROLOGISTS 59 (2022): 205-220. [doi]
  8. Johnson, W. "Ptolemaic Mummy Stuffings, 3: The Documentary Texts (Beinecke P.CtYBR inv. 5058, 5059, 5060, 5061, 5062, 5063)." Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 206 (2018): 157-178.
  9. Johnson, W. "Isidora to Apollonia: a Private Letter in the Beinecke Collection (P.CtYBR inv. 5044)." Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 206 (2018): 154-156.
  10. Johnson, W. "The Second Sophistic: Periodicity and Scope." The Oxford Handbook to the Second Sophistic (2017): 1-10.
  11. Johnson, W. "Imperial Pantomime and Satoshi Miyagi’s Medea." Didaskalia 13 (2017): 76-90.
  12. Johnson, W. "Ptolemaic Mummy Stuffings, 2: A Comic Fragment and Grammatical Text in the Yale Collection (P.CtYBR inv. 5019, 5043)." Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 199 (2016): 7-15. [repository]  [abs]
  13. Johnson, W. "Ptolemaic Mummy Stuffings: An Intriguing Scholar’s Text in the Yale Collection (P.CtYBR 5018)." Archiv für Papyrusforschung 62.1 (2016): 1-19. [repository], [doi]  [abs]
  14. Johnson, WA. "Learning to Read and Write." Blackwell’s Companion to Ancient Education (2015).
  15. Johnson, WA. "Bookrolls as media." Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era (January, 2013): 101-124.
  16. Johnson, WA. "Libraries and Reading Culture in the High Empire." Ancient Libraries (2013).
  17. Johnson, WA. "Pliny Epistle. 9.36 and Demosthenes' Cave." Classical World 106.4 (2013): 665-668.  [abs]
  18. Johnson, WA. "Review of Roger Bagnall, Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East." BASP 49 (2012).
  19. Johnson, WA. "Cicero and Tyrannio: Mens addita videtur meis aedibus (ad Atticum iv.8.2)." Classical World 105.4 (2012): 471-477. [doi]  [abs]
  20. Johnson, WA. "The Oxyrhynchus Distributions in America: Papyri and Ethics." BASP (2012).
  21. Johnson, WA. "Teaching the Children How to Read: The Syllabary." Classical Journal 103.4 (2010): 445-463. [doi]
  22. Johnson, WA. "Constructing Elite Reading Communities in the High Empire." Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome (2009): 320-330. [doi]  [abs]
  23. Johnson, WA. ""Books," "Literacy," "Readers and Reading"." Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (2009).
  24. Johnson, WA. "The Ancient Book." The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (2009).
  25. Johnson, WA. "Hesiod's Theogony: Reading the Proem as a Priamel." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 46.3 (2008): 231-235.
  26. Johnson, WA. "Review of Melissa M. Terras. Image to Interpretation. An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts (Oxford 2006)." Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 44 (2007): 245-247.
  27. Johnson, WA. "Review of Larry W. Hurtado, The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins (Eerdmans 2006)." Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 44 (2007): 249-251.
  28. Johnson, WA. "The Story of the Papyri of the Villa dei Papiri." Journal of Roman Archaeology 19 (2006): 493-496. (Essay and review of David Sider, The Library of the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum (Getty, 2005).)
  29. Johnson, WA. "The Posidippus Papyrus: Bookroll and Reader." The New Posidippus: A Hellenistic Poetry Book (2005).
  30. Johnson, WA. "Greek Electronic Resources and the Lexicographical Function." Biblical Greek Language and Lexicography (2004): 75-84.
  31. Johnson, WA. "Review of M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford University Press, 1992) and Egert Pöhlmann, M.L. West, Documents of Ancient Greek Music (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001)." Bryn Mawr Classical Review (April, 2003).
  32. Johnson, WA. "A colloquium on ancient music." Classical Review 53.2 (January, 2003): 463-464. [doi]
  33. Johnson, WA. "Review of Musique et poésie dans l’ antiquité (ed. G.-J. Pinault)." Classical Review 53 (2003): 463-464.
  34. Johnson, WA. "Reading cultures and education." Reading Between the Lines: New Perspectives on Foreign Language Literacies (2002).
  35. Johnson, WA. "P.Hibeh II 193 (Iliad VI 4-7)." Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 139 (2002): 1-2.
  36. Johnson, WA. "Musical Evenings in the Early Empire: New Evidence from a Greek Papyrus with Musical Notation." Journal of Hellenic Studies 120 (2000): 57-85. [doi]  [abs]
  37. Johnson, WA. "New instrumental music from Graeco-Roman Egypt." Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 37 (2000): 17-36. (Appeared 2001)
  38. Johnson, WA. "Toward a sociology of reading in classical antiquity." American Journal of Philology 121 (2000): 593-627. (Appeared 2001. Winner of the 2000 Gildersleeve Prize.)
  39. Johnson, WA. "Review of R. Cribiore, Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt." Classical Philology 93 (1998): 276-279.
  40. Johnson, WA. "Dramatic Frame and Philosophic Idea in Plato." The American Journal of Philology 119 (1998): 577-598.
  41. Johnson, WA. "Computer Assisted Instruction in the Learning of Greek and Latin, with J. Conant et al.." Bryn Mawr Classical Review 95.02.11 (June, 1995).
  42. Johnson, WA. "Percolare" and "percolere"." Thesaurus linguae Latinae 10.1 (1994): cols. 1215-1217.
  43. Johnson, WA. "Towards an Electronic Greek Historical Lexicon." Emerita 62 (1994): 253-261.
  44. Johnson, WA. "The Function of the Paragraphus in Greek Literary Prose Texts." Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 100 (1994): 65-68.
  45. Johnson, WA. "Macrocollum." Classical Philology 89 (1994): 62-64.
  46. Babcock, RG; Johnson, WA. "The Appian Papyrus from Dura-Europus (P.Dura 2)." Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 31 (1994): 85-88.
  47. Johnson, WA. "Oral Performance and the Composition of Herodotus' Histories." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 35 (1994): 229-254. (appeared Fall 1995)
  48. Johnson, WA. "Is Oratory Written on Narrower Columns? A Papyrological Rule of Thumb Reviewed." Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrology (Copenhagen) (1993): 423-427.
  49. Johnson, WA. "Column Layout in Oxyrhynchus Literary Papyri: Maas's Law, Ruling and Alignment Dots." Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 96 (1993): 211-215.
  50. Johnson, WA. "Pliny the Elder and Standardized Roll Heights in the Manufacture of Papyrus." Classical Philology 88 (1993): 46-50.
  51. Johnson, WA. "Multiple Copies of Literary Papyri, Fiber Patterns, and P.Oxy. XLVIII 3376 fr. 44." Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 93 (1992): 153-154.

Book & Monograph Reviews

  1. Johnson, WA. "Ancient Books Website."  2025  [abs]
  2. Johnson, WA; Armacost, A; Wagner, N. "Duke Provenance Project.."  2022  [abs]
  3. Johnson, WA. "Ancient Greek Music."  2001  [abs]
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