Writing the Bible : scribes, scribalism and script
Thomas Römer (Editor), Philip R. Davies (Editor)
"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 constitutes an exception because the texts function as the written "word of God", leading in turn to the veneration of scrolls as sacred and even cultic objects in themselves
Print Book, English, 2013
Acumen, Durham [England], 2013