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The Finger of the Scribe - How Scribes Learned to Write the Bible (Hardcover)
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The Finger of the Scribe - How Scribes Learned to Write the Bible (Hardcover)
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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.
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