The Scribe in the Biblical World : : A Bridge Between Scripts, Languages and Cultures /

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

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 m...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 382 p.)
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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

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