Description: 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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EAN: 9780190052461
UPC: 9780190052461
ISBN: 9780190052461
MPN: N/A
Item Length: 23.6 cm
Book Title: The Finger of the Scribe: How Scribes Learned to Write the Bibles
Item Height: 242mm
Item Width: 162mm
Author: William M. Schniedewind
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Religious History, Judaism, Christianity
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 492g
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
