Scribes And Scribalism

Author : Mark Leuchter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567696175

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Scribes and Scribalism by Mark Leuchter Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas Römer,Philip Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315487205

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Writing the Bible by Thomas Römer,Philip Davies Pdf

For many years it has been recognized that the key to explaining the production of the Bible lies in understanding the profession, the practice and the mentality of scribes in the ancient Near East, classical Greece and the Greco-Roman world. In many ways, however, the production of the Jewish literary canon, while reflecting wider practice, constitutes an exception because of its religious function as the written "word of God", leading in turn to the veneration of scrolls as sacred and even cultic objects in themselves. "Writing the Bible" brings together the wide-ranging study of all major aspects of ancient writing and writers. The essays cover the dissemination of texts, book and canon formation, and the social and political effects of writing and of textual knowledge. Central issues discussed include the status of the scribe, the nature of 'authorship', the relationship between copying and redacting, and the relative status of oral and written knowledge. The writers examined include Ilimilku of Ugarit, the scribes of ancient Greece, Ben Sira, Galen, Origen and the author of Pseudo-Clement.

Author : Karel van der Toorn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674032545

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Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible by Karel van der Toorn Pdf

We think of the Hebrew Bible as the Book--and yet it was produced by a largely nonliterate culture in which writing, editing, copying, interpretation, and public reading were the work of a professional elite. The scribes of ancient Israel are indeed the main figures behind the Hebrew Bible, and in this book Karel van der Toorn tells their story for the first time. His book considers the Bible in very specific historical terms, as the output of the scribal workshop of the Second Temple active in the period 500-200 BCE. Drawing comparisons with the scribal practices of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, van der Toorn clearly details the methods, the assumptions, and the material means of production that gave rise to biblical texts; then he brings his observations to bear on two important texts, Deuteronomy and Jeremiah. Traditionally seen as the copycats of antiquity, the scribes emerge here as the literate elite who held the key to the production as well as the transmission of texts. Van der Toorn's account of scribal culture opens a new perspective on the origins of the Hebrew Bible, revealing how the individual books of the Bible and the authors associated with them were products of the social and intellectual world of the scribes. By taking us inside that world, this book yields a new and arresting appreciation of the Hebrew Scriptures.

Author : Daniel D. Pioske
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190649876

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Memory in a Time of Prose by Daniel D. Pioske Pdf

Memory in a Time of Prose investigates a deceptively straightforward question: what did the biblical scribes know about times previous to their own? Daniel D. Pioske attempts to answer this question by studying the sources, limits, and conditions of knowing that would have shaped biblical stories told about a past that preceded the composition of these writings by a generation or more. This book is comprised of a series of case studies that compare biblical references to an early Iron Age world (ca. 1175-830 BCE) with a wide range of archaeological and historical evidence from the era in which these stories are set. Pioske examines the relationship between the past disclosed through these historical traces and the past represented within the biblical narrative. He discovers that the knowledge available to the biblical scribes about this period derived predominantly from memory and word of mouth, rather than from a corpus of older narrative documents. For those Hebrew scribes who first set down these stories in prose writing, the means for knowing a past and the significance attached to it were, in short, wed foremost to the faculty of remembrance. Memory in a Time of Prose reveals how the past was preserved, transformed, or forgotten in the ancient world of oral, living speech that informed biblical storytelling.

Author : Philip Zhakevich
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781646021055

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Scribal Tools in Ancient Israel by Philip Zhakevich Pdf

In this book, Philip Zhakevich examines the technology of writing as it existed in the southern Levant during the Iron Age II period, after the alphabetic writing system had fully taken root in the region. Using the Hebrew Bible as its corpus and focusing on a set of Hebrew terms that designated writing surfaces and instruments, this study synthesizes the semantic data of the Bible with the archeological and art-historical evidence for writing in ancient Israel. The bulk of this work comprises an in-depth lexicographical analysis of Biblical Hebrew terms related to Israel’s writing technology. Employing comparative Semitics, lexical semantics, and archaeology, Zhakevich provides a thorough analysis of the origins of the relevant terms; their use in the biblical text, Ben Sira, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and ancient Hebrew inscriptions; and their translation in the Septuagint and other ancient versions. The final chapter evaluates Israel’s writing practices in light of those of the ancient world, concluding that Israel’s most common form of writing (i.e., writing with ink on ostraca and papyrus) is Egyptian in origin and was introduced into Canaan during the New Kingdom. Comprehensive and original in its scope, Scribal Tools in Ancient Israel is a landmark contribution to our knowledge of scribes and scribal practices in ancient Israel. Students and scholars interested in language and literacy in the first-millennium Levant in particular will profit from this volume.

Author : Annette Yoshiko Reed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521119436

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Demons, Angels, and Writing in Ancient Judaism by Annette Yoshiko Reed Pdf

A new explanation of the beginnings of Jewish angelology and demonology, drawing on non-canonical writings and Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls.

Author : Rodney Ast,Malcolm Choat,Julia Lougovaya-Ast,Jennifer Cromwell,Rachel Yuen-Collingridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 904294286X

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Observing the Scribe at Work by Rodney Ast,Malcolm Choat,Julia Lougovaya-Ast,Jennifer Cromwell,Rachel Yuen-Collingridge Pdf

Scribes are paradoxically both central and invisible in most societies before the typographic revolution of the 15th century, witnessed by every manuscript, but often elusive as historical figures. The act of writing is a quotidian and vernacular practice as well as a literary one, and must be observed not only in the outputs of literary copyists or reports of their activities, but in the documents of everyday life. This volume collects contributions on scribal practice as it features on diverse media (including papyri, tablets, and inscriptions) in a range of ancient societies, from the Ancient Near East and Dynastic Egypt through the Graeco-Roman world to Byzantium. These discussions of the role and place of scribes and scribal activity in pre-typographic cultures both contribute to a better understanding of one of the key drivers of these cultures, and illuminate the transmission of knowledge and traditions within and between them.

Author : June Ashton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X030575097

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Scribal Habits in the Ancient Near East by June Ashton Pdf

Author : Joseph Blenkinsopp,Eugene Ulrich
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781850753759

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Priests, Prophets and Scribes by Joseph Blenkinsopp,Eugene Ulrich Pdf

The 17 essays in this volume fall into four sections: Early Judaism and its Environment; Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah; Wisdom, Scribes and Scribalism; and Theology of the Hebrew Bible. They are accompanied by a biographical sketch (by Robert Wilken) and a bibliography of Blenkinsopp's writings. Joseph Blenkinsopp is one of the foremost Catholic biblical scholars of his generation. Born in England, he has taught in the USA since 1968. The essays in this volume contributed by colleagues, friends and students reflect the many interests of Joseph Blenkinsopp's innovative and multi-faceted scholarship.

Author : Daphna Arbel,Paul C. Burns,J.R.C. Cousland,Richard Menkis,Dietmar Neufeld
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780567352637

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Not Sparing the Child: Human Sacrifice in the Ancient World and Beyond by Daphna Arbel,Paul C. Burns,J.R.C. Cousland,Richard Menkis,Dietmar Neufeld Pdf

The role of human sacrifice in the ancient Mediterranean world and its implications continue to be topics that fire the popular imagination and engender scholarly discussion and controversy. This volume provides balanced and judicious treatments of the various facets of these topics from a cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspective. It provides nuanced examinations of ancient ritual, exploring the various meanings that human sacrifice held for antiquity, and examines its varied repercussions up into the modern world. The book explores evidence to shed new light on the origins of the rite, to whom these sacrifices were offered, and by whom they were performed. It presents fresh insights into the social and religious meanings of this practice in its varied biblical landscape and ancient contexts, and demonstrates how human sacrifice has captured the imagination of later writers who have employed it in diverse cultural and theological discourses to convey their own views and ideologies. It provides valuable perspectives for understanding key cultural, theological and ideological dimensions, such as the sacrifice of Christ, scapegoating,self-sacrifice and martyrdom in post-biblical and modern times.

Author : Seth L. Sanders
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161544560

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From Adapa to Enoch by Seth L. Sanders Pdf

"This book asks what drove the religious visions of ancient scribes. During the first millennium BCE both Babylonian and Judean scribes wrote about and emulated their heroes Adapa and Enoch, who went to heaven to meet their god."--Preface, p. [v].

Author : Anna P. Judson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108494724

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The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B by Anna P. Judson Pdf

Ground-breaking analysis of the Linear B undeciphered signs shedding light on the writing system and the activities of its writers.

Author : William Edward Arnal,Richard S. Ascough,R. A. Derrenbacker,Philip A. Harland
Publisher : Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theolo
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9042933917

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Scribal Practices and Social Structures Among Jesus Adherents by William Edward Arnal,Richard S. Ascough,R. A. Derrenbacker,Philip A. Harland Pdf

Building on the influential efforts of John S. Kloppenborg to integrate our understanding of Christian origins more closely and carefully within its cultural matrix, this volume explores two main phenomena of Hellenistic and Roman antiquity: scribes and scribalism, on the one hand, and voluntary associations, especially as evidenced in honorific and other inscriptions, on the other. In part one, nineteen essays by both established and younger scholars explore ancient scribalism, bureaucracy, literacy, and book production, with a view to drawing innovative new conclusions about a range of ancient Christian writings, including the gospels, Q, the Gospel of Thomas and other Nag Hammadi writings, the Letter of James, and apocalyptic literature, as well as insights into the synoptic problem and memory theory. Part two offers nine articles drawing on papyrological and epigraphic evidence to illuminate group behaviors and the concrete dynamics of smaller social bodies in the Hellenistic and Roman world, with several of the papers explicitly applying this analysis to the ekklesiai established by Paul. The essays in this section contribute to a more detailed understanding of ancient voluntary associations, and along with them, a richer picture of ancient values, economics, politics, and clothing.

Author : Christopher A. Rollston
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781589831070

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Writing and Literacy in the World of Ancient Israel by Christopher A. Rollston Pdf

Author : Jennifer Cromwell,Eitan Grossman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780198768104

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Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period by Jennifer Cromwell,Eitan Grossman Pdf

Volume is outcome of a workshop held in 2009 at the University of Oxford (Beyond free-variation: scribal repertoires in Egypt from the Old Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period).