1. The documentary papyri are those actual documents and letters from the ancient world that were amazingly preserved, primarily in the sands of Egypt, and then recovered by archaeologists. There are thousands published in various collections. The most accessible in English are those published by the Harvard University Press in the Loeb Classical Library, Select Papyri; in Adolf Deismann, Light from the Ancient East (trans. L. R. M. Strachan; New York: George H. Doran, 1927; repr. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1997). Many papyri have been put on online and can be viewed at www.papyri.info.
2. Kim, Form and Structure.
3. Watson, “Rhetorical Analysis,” 479–501.
4. Klauck and Bailey, Ancient Letters; Stanley K. Stowers, Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1986).
5. Sherman and Tuggy, Semantic and Structural Analysis; Clark, “Discourse Structure in 3 John,” 109–15; Floor, “Discourse Analysis of 3 John,” 1–17.