"SCHOOLING OF AN ANCIENT SCRIBE IN ANCIENT ISRAEL"

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PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER ROLLSTON (George Washington University)
THE SCHOOLING OF AN ANCIENT SCRIBE IN ANCIENT ISRAEL

Wednesday 6 December at 5.00pm (GMT) with Zoom access from 4.45pm – followed by Q&A

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Writing in the ancient Near Eastern world was a technology, and a fairly complicated one at that. This is true not only of the very complex non-alphabetic writing systems of Mesopotamia and Egypt, but also of the alphabetic writing systems of the Levantine world of ancient Israel. Within this lecture, Professor Rollston will discuss inscriptional and literary evidence for the education of a scribe in ancient Israel and Judah.

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Christopher Rollston is Professor of Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures, and Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the George Washington University. He holds the MA and Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. A leading scholar in the field of Northwest Semitic (e.g., Hebrew, Aramaic, Phoenician, Ugaritic) epigraphy, his many research interests include ancient writing practices, scribes and scribal education, ancient literacy, the origins of the alphabet, and modern (and ancient) forgeries. His book Writing and Literacy in Ancient Israel (SBL, 2010) was awarded the American Schools of Oriental Research's Frank Moore Cross Award in 2011. Rollston's more recent (edited) volumes are Enemies and Friends of the State: Ancient Prophecy in Context (Penn State University Press, 2018), as well as Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of P. Kyle McCarter, Jr. (Society of Biblical Literature Press, 2022).

[StephenGoranson]

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