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William M. Schniedewind. The Finger of the Scribe: How Scribes Learned to Write the Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. x + 236 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2021

Sara Milstein
Sara Milstein*
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The University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Book Reviews: Biblical Studies
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AJS Review , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , April 2021 , pp. 170 - 172
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References

1. van der Toorn, Karel, Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Carr, David, Writing on the Tablet of the Heart: Origins of Scripture and Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)Google Scholar.

2. Meshel, Ze'ev, Kuntillet Ajrud: An Iron Age II Religious Site on the Judah-Sinai Border (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2012)Google Scholar.

3. Unfortunately, Schniedewind could not make use of the concurrent publication by Andrew R. George and Gabriella Spada of the Akkadian model letters and other pedagogical texts in Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part Two (University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, 2019), but the interested reader should consult that work for Akkadian examples of the genre.