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This volume is a concentrated examination of the varied roles of scribes and scribal practices in ancient Israel and Judah, shedding light on the social world of the Hebrew Bible. Divided into discussion of three key aspects, the book begins by assessing praxis and materiality, looking at the tools and materials used by scribes, where they came from and how they worked in specific contexts. The contributors then move to observe the power and status of scribal cultures, and how scribes functioned within their broader social world. Finally, the volume offers perspectives that examine ideological issues at play in both antiquity and the modern context(s) of biblical scholarship. Taken together, these essays demonstrate that no text is produced in a void, and no writer functions without a network of resources."--
Scribes, Jewish. --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Scribes, Jewish --- 221.014 --- 221.014 Oud Testament: tekstgeschiedenis en tekstkritiek:--inleidingen; werkinstrumenten --- Oud Testament: tekstgeschiedenis en tekstkritiek:--inleidingen; werkinstrumenten --- Sofer --- Soferim --- Sofrim --- Sopher --- Sopherim --- Sophrim --- Judaism --- Functionaries
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Scribal practices across disciplines are often explored through divisions between words, stiches and verses, sections, scribal hands and marks, correction and copying procedures. This volume offers a different perspective: writing as shown here is, at its heart, a deeply social practice connecting narrative to the different categories of knowledge (linguistic, political, administrative, legal, historical and geographic) and literacy. The twelve essays investigate how scribal practices are related to the construction of knowledge and challenge the conventional boundaries. They address various types of knowledge whose potential is triggered by certain needs and values in the context of Antiquity, Late Antiquity and Medieval Islam from al-Andalus through Egypt, Syria to Iraq, Anatolia and Bactria as far afield as Ethiopia. The vast majority of the papers are related thematically and the overall connection between the articles is the salient feature of this volume. The papers also demonstrate how the local context has shaped scribal practices allowing for cross-cultural comparison.
Scribes --- Scribes, Jewish. --- Learning and scholarship --- Jewish learning and scholarship. --- Islamic learning and scholarship. --- Learning and scholarship. --- Scribes. --- History --- Medieval. --- 500-1500. --- Egypt. --- Academic collection --- Scribes, Jewish --- Jewish learning and scholarship --- Islamic learning and scholarship --- Scribes - Egypt --- Learning and scholarship - Egypt --- Learning and scholarship - History - Medieval, 500-1500
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