Adaptation in Scribal Curriculum: Examples from the Letter Writing Genre

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Approaches of Scribes to the Biblical Text in Ancient Israel 3
5. West Semitic Royal Scribes ca. 1250– 600 BCE 23
6. The Role of Legal Texts in Scribal Education: Implications for Biblical Law 47
7. Cursing an Authority: Scribal Tradition from Babylonia to Canaan and Back 69
8. The ‘Nests’ of the Aramaic Scribal Culture in the Late 9th – Early 7th Centuries BCE Levant: An Attempt at Identification 87
9. Judaean Glyptic Finds: An Updated Corpus and a Revision of Their Palaeography 115
10. Hieratic Numerals on Iron Age Hebrew Tax Bullae 139
11. Out of Egypt: Lexicographic Evidence for Egyptian Influence on West Semitic and Israelite Administrative and Scribal Practice 163
12. Northwest Semitic – Akkadian Linguistic Convergence: *sipr- and Other Terms for ‘Writing’ as a Case Study 183
13. Adaptation in Scribal Curriculum: Examples from the Letter Writing Genre 203
14. Combining Different Types of Scripts in the Aramaic Texts 233
15. Theonyms in Palaeo-Hebrew and Other Alternate Scripts on Dead Sea Scrolls 249
16. Betwee רnֵ ס ֹ פ and ס רפ : The Evolution of the Second Temple Period ‘Scribe’ 295
17. Text Case: Writing under Extreme Conditions at Masada 321
18. Scribal Fatigue in Ancient Revisionary Composition 343
19. Conclusion 371
20. Index 379