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

Published by De Gruyter 2023

The Scribe in the Biblical World

A Bridge Between Scripts, Languages and Cultures

Edited by: Esther Eshel and Michael Langlois

Volume 547 in the series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110984293

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Esther Eshel, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and Michael Langlois, University of Strasbourg, France.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Esther Eshel and Michael Langlois Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Approaches of Scribes to the Biblical Text in Ancient Israel Emanuel Tov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
West Semitic Royal Scribes ca. 1250– 600 BCE André Lemaire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
The Role of Legal Texts in Scribal Education: Implications for Biblical Law Sara Milstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Cursing an Authority: Scribal Tradition from Babylonia to Canaan and Back Aaron Demsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
The ‘Nests’ of the Aramaic Scribal Culture in the Late 9th – Early 7th Centuries BCE Levant: An Attempt at Identification Jan Dušek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Judaean Glyptic Finds: An Updated Corpus and a Revision of Their Palaeography Anat Mendel-Geberovich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Hieratic Numerals on Iron Age Hebrew Tax Bullae Stefan Jakob Wimmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Out of Egypt: Lexicographic Evidence for Egyptian Influence on West Semitic and Israelite Administrative and Scribal Practice Aren M. Wilson-Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Northwest Semitic – Akkadian Linguistic Convergence: *sipr- and Other Terms for ‘Writing’ as a Case Study Tania Notarius Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Adaptation in Scribal Curriculum: Examples from the Letter Writing Genre William M. Schniedewind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Combining Different Types of Scripts in the Aramaic Texts Esther Eshel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Theonyms in Palaeo-Hebrew and Other Alternate Scripts on Dead Sea Scrolls Michael Langlois Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Betwee רnֵ ס ֹ פ and ס רפ : The Evolution of the Second Temple Period ‘Scribe’ Paul Mandel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Text Case: Writing under Extreme Conditions at Masada Guy D. Stiebel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Scribal Fatigue in Ancient Revisionary Composition Jeffrey Stackert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
Conclusion Esther Eshel and Michael Langlois Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars in the field of theology, history of the Hebrew Bible, and ancient history.
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 382
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 17
- Coloured Illustrations: 31
Keywords: Second Temple; Early Bronze Age; Masada; Redaction criticism

eBook

Published: December 5, 2022
ISBN: 9783110984293

Hardcover

Published: December 5, 2022
ISBN: 9783110996685