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A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of automatic printing. [1] [2]
The Masoretes (Hebrew: בַּעֲלֵי הַמָּסוֹרָה, romanized: Baʿălēy Hammāsōrā, lit. 'Masters of the Tradition') were groups of Jewish scribe-scholars who worked from around the end of the 5th through 10th centuries CE, [1] [2] based primarily in the Jewish centers of the Levant (e.g., Tiberias and Jerusalem) and Mesopotamia (e.g., Sura and Nehardea). [3]
Scribe in the Place of Truth: Reni-seneb: Dynasty 18 owner of the Chair of Reniseneb on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, (see Caning (furniture)) (See also: a Dynasty XII scribe, Reny-seneb, article Pah Tum.) Roy: Scribe TT255: Senu 18th dynasty: Scribe of the Army (Stele and inscribed tomb enclosure) Tuna el-Gebel necropolis Setau
Ezra (fl. fifth or fourth century BCE) [1] [a] [b] is the main character of the Book of Ezra.According to the Hebrew Bible, he was an important Jewish scribe and priest in the early Second Temple period.
The traditional organization of book production fell apart; they were made up of libraries doling out quires to scribes and illuminators, who lived in proximity. The new, specialized system based on patronage did not support them. Libraries, and not scribes, turned into printers, and served as a link between late manuscript culture and print ...
A scrivener (or scribe) was a person who, before the advent of compulsory education, could read and write or who wrote letters as well as court and legal documents.
The Pharisees emerged [when?] largely out of the group of scribes and sages. [ citation needed ] Some scholars observe some Idumean influences in the development of Pharisaical Judaism. [ 28 ] The Pharisees, among other Jewish sects, were active from the middle of the 2nd century BCE until the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE.
A scriptorium (/ s k r ɪ p ˈ t ɔːr i ə m / ⓘ) [1] was a writing room in medieval European monasteries for the copying and illuminating of manuscripts by scribes. [2] [3] The term has perhaps been over-used—only some monasteries had special rooms set aside for scribes. Often they worked in the monastery library or in their own rooms.