The Scribe in the Biblical World : : A Bridge Between Scripts, Languages and Cultures / / ed. by Esther Eshel, Michael Langlois.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Demsky, Aaron,; Dušek, Jan,; Eshel, Esther,; Langlois, Michael,; Lemaire, André,; Mandel, Paul,; Mendel-Geberovich, Anat,; Milstein, Sara,; Notarius, Tania,; Schniedewind, William M.,; Stackert, Jeffrey,; Stiebel, Guy D.,; Tov, Emanuel,; Wilson-Wright, Aren M.,; Wimmer, Stefan Jakob,
• HerausgeberIn: Eshel, Esther,; Langlois, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft , 547
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 382 p.)

This book offers a fresh look at the status of the scribe in society, his training, practices, and work in the biblical world. What was the scribe’s role in these societies? Were there rival scribal schools? What was their role in daily life? How many scripts and languages did they grasp? Did they master political and religious rhetoric? Did they travel or share foreign traditions, cultures, and beliefs? Were scribes redactors, or simply copyists? What was their influence on the redaction of the Bible? How did they relate to the political and religious powers of their day? Did they possess any authority themselves? These are the questions that were tackled during an international conference held at the University of Strasbourg on June 17–19, 2019. The conference served as the basis for this publication, which includes fifteen articles covering a wide geographical and chronological range, from Late Bronze Age royal scribes to refugees in Masada at the end of the Second Temple period.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Approaches of Scribes to the Biblical Text in Ancient Israel -- West Semitic Royal Scribes ca. 1250– 600 BCE -- The Role of Legal Texts in Scribal Education: Implications for Biblical Law -- Cursing an Authority: Scribal Tradition from Babylonia to Canaan and Back -- The ‘Nests’ of the Aramaic Scribal Culture in the Late 9th – Early 7th Centuries BCE Levant: An Attempt at Identification -- Judaean Glyptic Finds: An Updated Corpus and a Revision of Their Palaeography -- Hieratic Numerals on Iron Age Hebrew Tax Bullae -- Out of Egypt: Lexicographic Evidence for Egyptian Influence on West Semitic and Israelite Administrative and Scribal Practice -- Northwest Semitic – Akkadian Linguistic Convergence: *sipr- and Other Terms for ‘Writing’ as a Case Study -- Adaptation in Scribal Curriculum: Examples from the Letter Writing Genre -- Combining Different Types of Scripts in the Aramaic Texts -- Theonyms in Palaeo-Hebrew and Other Alternate Scripts on Dead Sea Scrolls -- Betwee רnֵ ס ֹ פ and ס רפ : The Evolution of the Second Temple Period ‘Scribe’ -- Text Case: Writing under Extreme Conditions at Masada -- Scribal Fatigue in Ancient Revisionary Composition -- Conclusion -- Index