The scribe in the Biblical world : a bridge between scripts, languages and cultures / edited by Esther Eshel and Michael Langlois.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eshel, Esther, editor.

Langlois, Michaël, 1976- editor.

Series:

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; 547.

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; volume 547

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Authorship--Congresses.

Bible.

Scribes, Jewish--Congresses.

Scribes, Jewish.

Bible. Old Testament.

Authorship.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vi, 382 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Bridge between scripts, languages and cultures

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]

Summary:

"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." --Provided by publisher

Contents:

Approaches of scribes to the Biblical text in ancient Israel / Emanuel Tov

West Semitic royal scribes ca. 1250- 600 BCE / André Lemaire

The role of legal texts in scribal education : implications for Biblical law / Sara Milstein

Cursing an authority : scribal tradition from Babylonia to Canaan and back / Aaron Demsky

The 'nests' of the Aramaic scribal culture in the late 9th - early 7th centuries BCE Levant : an attempt at identification / Jan Dušek

Judaean glyptic finds : an updated corpus and a revision of their palaeography / Anat Mendel-Geberovich

Hieratic numerals on Iron Age Hebrew tax bullae / Stefan Jakob Wimmer

Out of Egypt : lexicographic evidence for Egyptian influence on west Semitic and Israelite administrative and scribal practice / Aren M. Wilson-Wright

Northwest Semitic - Akkadian linguistic convergence : *sipr- and other terms for 'writing' as a case study / Tania Notarius

Adaptation in scribal curriculum : examples from the letter writing genre / William M. Schniedewind

Combining different types of scripts in the Aramaic texts / Esther Eshel

Theonyms in palaeo-Hebrew and other alternate scripts on Dead Sea scrolls / Michael Langlois

Between sofer and safer : the evolution of the Second Temple Period 'scribe' / Paul Mandel

Text case : writing under extreme conditions at Masada / Guy D. Stiebel

Scribal fatigue in ancient revisionary composition / Jeffrey Stackert.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

PDF

ePub

ISBN:

3110996685

9783110996685

OCLC:

1353174570

Publisher Number:

9783110996685