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Scribes and Scribalism

✍ Scribed by Mark Leuchter

Publisher
T&T Clark
Year
2021
Tongue
English
Leaves
198
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

In this volume contributors examine the varied roles of scribes and scribal practices in ancient Israel and Judah, shedding light on the social world of the Hebrew Bible.
The volume is split into three parts (following the series structure). Part I examines praxis and materiality, looking at the tools and materials used by scribes, where they came from and how they worked in specific contexts. Part II looks at the power and status of scribal cultures, and how scribes functioned within their broader social world. Finally, Part III offers perspectives that examine ideological issues at play in both antiquity and the modern context(s) of biblical scholarship. Taken together the essays show that no text is produced in a void, and no writer functions without a network of resources.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Series Editor’s Preface
Introduction: The Scholarly Context for the Study of Scribes and Scribalism / Mark Leuchter
Part One Praxis and Materiality
Influential Inscriptions: Resituating Scribal Activity during the Iron I–IIA Transition / Sarah Malena
The Media and Materiality of Southern Levantine Inscriptions: Production and Reception Contexts / Madah Richey
Scribes and Scribalism in Archaic Crete / Anselm C. Hagedorn
Part Two Power and Status
Scribes, Schools and Ideological Conflict in Ancient Israel and Judah / Brian Rainey
Ecclesiastes and the Problem of Transmission in Biblical Literature / Jacqueline Vayntrub
Textualization and the Transformation of Biblical Prophecy / Heath D. Dewrell
Reorientation in Responsibility of Levites Taking Care of the Ark: The Levites’ Role in Samuel–Kings in Relation to Deuteronomistic Expressions Concerning Interpretation of the Law / Antje Labahn
Part Three Between Ideology and Authority
Writing in Three Dimensions: Scribal Activity and Spaces in Jewish Antiquity / Laura Carlson Hasler
Rejecting β€œPatriarchy”: Reflections on Feminism, Biblical Scholarship, and Social Perspective / Shawna Dolansky
Bibliography
Index of References
Index of Authors

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