Rate My Professor Trevor Evans

Evans's research focuses on ancient languages, particularly the post-classical history of Greek, Greek and Latin documentary texts such as papyri and inscriptions, the Septuagint, and lexicography, with special attention to the Zenon Archive. His major publications include the monograph Verbal Syntax in the Greek Pentateuch: Natural Greek Usage and Hebrew Interference (Oxford University Press, 2001); edited volumes The Language of the Papyri (with Dirk D. Obbink, Oxford University Press, 2010), Biblical Greek in Context: Studies in Honour of John A. L. Lee (with James K. Aitken, Peeters, 2015), and Koine Greek and the Evidence of Documentary Sources (with Genevieve Young-Evans, 2024); and assistant editorship of fascicules IX–XIII of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2005–2010). He has published extensively on topics including linguistic variation in the Zenon Archive, Septuagint syntax, and papyrological lexicography. Evans was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2021, held a Polonsky Visiting Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in 2018, and is recognized for methodological innovation in ancient cultures.