Finger of the Scribe: How Scribes Learned to Write the Bible - Hardcover

Schniedewind, William M

 
9780190052461: Finger of the Scribe: How Scribes Learned to Write the Bible
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0190052465 ISBN 13: 9780190052461
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

William M. Schniedewind has been a Professor of Biblical Studies and Northwest Semitic Languages at UCLA for twenty-five years. He has been the Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and held the Kershaw Endowed Chair of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies. Professor Schniedewind is the author of six books and numerous articles.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press, USA
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0190052465
ISBN 13 
9780190052461
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
248
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