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The Finger of the Scribe : How Scribes Learned to Write the Bible

by: Schniedewind, W.M.

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Code: 25592
ISBN-13: 9780190052461 / 978-0-19-005246-1
ISBN-10: 0190052465 / 0-19-005246-5
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2019
Publication Place: Oxford
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 236
Book Condition: New

One of the enduring problems in biblical studies is how the Bible came to be written. Clearly, scribes were involved. But our knowledge of scribal training in ancient Israel is limited. William Schniedewind explores the unexpected cache of inscriptions discovered at a remote, Iron Age military post called Kuntillet 'Ajrud to assess the question of how scribes might have been taught to write. Here, far from such urban centers as Jerusalem or Samaria, plaster walls and storage pithoi were littered with inscriptions. Apart from the sensational nature of some of the contents-perhaps suggesting Yahweh had a consort-these inscriptions also reflect actual writing practices among soldiers stationed near the frontier. What emerges is a very different picture of how writing might have been taught, as opposed to the standard view of scribal schools in the main population centers.
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter 1: The Emergence of Scribal Education in Ancient Israel
Chapter 2: Scribal Curriculum at Kuntillet 'Ajrud
Chapter 3: Alphabets and Acrostics
Chapter 4: From Lists to Literature
Chapter 5: Letters, Paragraphs, and Prophets
Chapter 6: Proverbial Wisdom Sayings
Chapter 7: Advanced Education
Epilogue
Bibliography
Notes

 
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