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245	0	0	_aScribal Practices and the Social Construction of Knowledge: _bIn Antiquity, Late antiquity and Medieval Islam
264		1	_aLeuven; _aParis; _aBristol: _bPeeters, _c2017
300			_a253 p., _bill., map; _c26 cm
440			_aOrientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; _v266 _x0777-978X
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505	0	0	_gSection one. Deconstructing "scribe", exploring scribal lore and script: the socio-political background of the ancient Egyptian, cuneiform, Syriac, Judeo-Arabic and Arabic scribal practices. _tWriting practices, people and materials in Egypt to the first millennium BC _rStephen Quirke _tThe construction of meaning on the cuneiform periphery _rMark Weeden _tScribal tradition and the transmission of Syriac literature in Late Antiquity and Early Islam _rSebastian P. Brock _tArabic documents from the early Islamic period _rGeoffrey Khan _tScribal practice in the Jewish community of Medieval Egypt _rEsther-Miriam Wagner _tScribes as scapegoats: language, identity, and power in Jahshiyārī's Book of Viziers and Scribes _rElizabeth Urban _gSection two. The social context of writing, transcoding and transmitting knowledge in Judeo-Christian, Mandean, Coptic, Syriac, Latin-Arabic, Arabic and Ethiopic traditions. _tThe Rabbinic concept of Holy Scriptures as sacred objects _rTimothy H. Lim _tThe Aramaic incantation texts as witnesses to the Mandaic Scriptures _rCharles G. Häberl _tSocial construction of knowledge or intra-communal concerns? Coptic letters from Sasanian Egypt _rMyriam Wissa _tTransmitting texts from Latin into Arabic. A Christian culture at risk in the heart of the Islamic rule in al-Andalus _rJuan Pedro Monferrer-Sala _tScribal practices among Muslims and Christians: A comparison between the judicial letters of Qurra b. Sharīk and Ḥenanishoʻ (1st century AH) _rMathieu Tillier _tThe earlier Ethiopic textual heritage _rAlessandro Bausi _gConclusion _tMapping scribal practices: telling another story _rMyriam Wissa
520	8		_aScribal practices across disciplines are often explored through divisions between words, stiches and verses, sections, scribal hands and marks, correction and copying procedures. This volume offers a different perspective: writing as shown here is, at its heart, a deeply social practice connecting narrative to the different categories of knowledge (linguistic, political, administrative, legal, historical and geographic) and literacy. The twelve essays investigate how scribal practices are related to the construction of knowledge and challenge the conventional boundaries. They address various types of knowledge whose potential is triggered by certain needs and values in the context of Antiquity, Late Antiquity and Medieval Islam from al-Andalus through Egypt, Syria to Iraq, Anatolia and Bactria as far afield as Ethiopia. The vast majority of the papers are related thematically and the overall connection between the articles is the salient feature of this volume. The papers also demonstrate how the local context has shaped scribal practices allowing for cross-cultural comparison.
546			_aPrimarily in English. Preface in French.
650		0	_aScribes _vAncient Egypt _xJewish _xIslamic _zEgypt _yMedieval, 500-1500
700	1		_aMyriam Wissa _eeditor
700	1		_aSebastian P. Brock _esupplementary textual content
700	1		_aPascal Vernus _epreface
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