Writing the Bible: Scribes, Scribalism and Script

by Philip Davies and Thomas Römer

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113866104X
• ISBN13: 9781138661042
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"