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Series Editor Preface – Francesca Stavrakopoulou, University of Exeter, UK
Preface
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1. Introduction: The Scholarly Context for the Study of Scribes and Scribalism – Mark Leuchter, Temple University, USA
Part I: Praxis and Materiality
2. Influential Inscriptions: Resituating Scribal Activity During the Iron I-IIA Transition -- Sarah Malena, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, USA
3. The Media and Materiality of Southern Levantine Inscriptions: Production and Reception Contexts -- Madadh Richey, University of Chicago, USA
4. Scribes and Scribalism in Archaic Crete -- Anselm Hagedorn, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Part II: Power and Status
5. Scribes, Schools, and Ideological Conflict in Ancient Israel and Judah -- Brian Rainey, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
6. Ecclesiastes and the Problem of Transmission in Biblical Literature -- Jacqueline Vayntrub, Yale Divinity School, USA
7. Textualization and the Transformation of Biblical Prophecy -- Heath D. Dewrell, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
8. Reorientation in Responsibility of Levites Taking care for the Ark: The Levites’ Role in Samuel—Kings in Relation to Deuteronomistic Expressions Concerning Interpretation of the Law -- Antje Labahn, Wuppertal Hochschule, Germany
Part III: Between Ideology and Authority
9. Writing in Three Dimensions: Scribal Activity and Spaces in Jewish Antiquity -- Laura Carlson Hasler, Indiana University, USA
10. Rejecting 'Patriarchy': Reflections on Feminism, Biblical Scholarship, and Social Perspective -- Shawna Dolansky, Carleton University, Canada
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About the author
Mark Leuchter is Director of Jewish Studies, Assistant Professor of Religion, Temple University, USA.
Summary
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.
Foreword
This volume examines the varied roles of scribes and scribal practices in ancient Israel and Judah, shedding light on the social world of the Hebrew Bible.
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Scribes and Scribalism is a nicely edited collection of essays … that contributes advances the increasingly trendy research about ancient scribes and scribalism.
