TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zhakevich,Philip
TI  - Scribal Tools in Ancient Israel: A Study of Biblical Hebrew Terms for Writing Materials and Implements 
T2  - History, Archaeology, and Culture of the Levant
SN  - 9781646021055
AV  - Z45 .Z425 2020eb
U1  - 681/.609334 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - University Park, PA : 
PB  - Penn State University Press, 
KW  - Hebrew language
KW  - Writing
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Writing materials and instruments
KW  - Israel
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Ancient Hebrew Epigraphy
KW  - Ancient Israel
KW  - Ancient Writing Practices
KW  - Early Alphabet
KW  - Early Alphabetic Inscriptions
KW  - Egyptian Influence on Canaan/Israel
KW  - Hebrew Bible
KW  - Instruments of Writing
KW  - Lapidary/Stone Inscriptions
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Papyrus/Leather Scrolls
KW  - Scribal Schools
KW  - Scribalism
KW  - Scribes
KW  - Writing Materials
KW  - Writing Surfaces
KW  - Writing Technology
KW  - Writing Tools
KW  - Writing in Ink on Ostraca
KW  - Writing on Plaster
N1  - restricted access
N2  - In this book, Philip Zhakevich examines the technology of writing as it existed in the southern Levant during the Iron Age II period, after the alphabetic writing system had fully taken root in the region. Using the Hebrew Bible as its corpus and focusing on a set of Hebrew terms that designated writing surfaces and instruments, this study synthesizes the semantic data of the Bible with the archeological and art-historical evidence for writing in ancient Israel. The bulk of this work comprises an in-depth lexicographical analysis of Biblical Hebrew terms related to Israel’s writing technology. Employing comparative Semitics, lexical semantics, and archaeology, Zhakevich provides a thorough analysis of the origins of the relevant terms; their use in the biblical text, Ben Sira, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and ancient Hebrew inscriptions; and their translation in the Septuagint and other ancient versions. The final chapter evaluates Israel’s writing practices in light of those of the ancient world, concluding that Israel’s most common form of writing (i.e., writing with ink on ostraca and papyrus) is Egyptian in origin and was introduced into Canaan during the New Kingdom.Comprehensive and original in its scope, Scribal Tools in Ancient Israel is a landmark contribution to our knowledge of scribes and scribal practices in ancient Israel. Students and scholars interested in language and literacy in the first-millennium Levant in particular will profit from this volume
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781646021055?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781646021055
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781646021055/original
ER  -