Scribes and the Scribal Arts

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This multi-volume project aims to draw together and analyse primary evidence (texts, material objects, site plans, etc.) related to scribes and the scribal arts from Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Levant from the dawn of scribalism to the turn of the millennium.  The first volume will focus on scribes themselves: education, duties, social location(s), materials employed in their craft, etc. The second will focus on scribal arts, in particular the ways that scribes organized and presented written information. The volumes will be source books. At the same time, each piece of evidence will be provided with analysis to clarify any difficulties presented by the evidence and (key to the project) to make explicit what the evidence may or may not indicate.

The main object of the project is to provide scholars of ancient Israel and ancient Judaism with a comprehensive source for information regarding writing skills and writing practices in antiquity. 

Project Coordinator

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Project Collaborators

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StARIS Student Researchers

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