@article{Schniedewind_2020, title={Learning to be a Biblical Scribe: Examples from the Letter Writing Genre}, volume={12}, url={https://periodicos.pucpr.br/pistispraxis/article/view/27140}, DOI={10.7213/2175-1838.12.002.DS02}, abstractNote={<p>The paper illustrates how scribal education shaped and influenced biblical<br />literature. It discusses how educational curriculum can be reconstructed from<br />Hebrew inscriptions and comparative examples in cuneiform literature. The<br />Hebrew educational curriculum was adapted from cuneiform models in the 12th<br />century BCE. These models were known in Canaan, and then used by early<br />alphabetic scribes. The best repository of ancient Hebrew scribal practice comes<br />from the desert fortress of Kuntillet ʿAjrud where all the categories of elementary<br />scribal education are known. Perhaps the most important of these was letter<br />writing, which was a basic part of a scribe’s everyday duties. Not surprisingly, letter<br />writing was also one of the foundations of scribal education, and it was adapted<br />and used for writing biblical literature in ways both mundane and profound. This<br />included both the structuring of biblical narrative and the genre of writing<br />prophets.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Revista Pistis & Praxis}, author={Schniedewind, William M.}, year={2020}, month={ago.} }