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scribal

a. Relating to scribes and their work.

Usage examples of "scribal".

But the idea of simple scribal manipulation, which would mean that such desires never even existed, and which is advanced by modern authorities and bolstered by the similar examples from other cultures and by the predilection of scribes for amusing themselves with word and alphabet games, seems the best explanation.

Since the prince could read and write, Nevyn brought him books from the scribal library and lingered to spend an hour or two discussing them.

You can train with the guards, and then come here for scribal training with the clerks.

When Dallandra opened it, she found tidy scribal writing, faded to brown, announcing that this book belonged to Nevyn, councillor to Maryn, Gwerbret Cerrmor.

Something similar already existed in more mainstream Jewish scribal thinking: the figure of personified Wisdom I mentioned earlier.

Just as the master Arab calligraphers, commited to the notion of the endless persistence of tradition and books, had for five centuries been in the habit of resting their eyes as a precaution against blindness by turning their backs to the rising sun and looking toward the western horizon, Ibn Shakir ascended the minaret of the Caliphet Mosque in the coolness of morning, and from the balcony where the muezzin called the faithful to prayer, witnessed all that would end a five-centuries-long tradition of scribal art.

But only a little later, beneath the smaller, shabbier superstructures of the Fifth and Sixth Dynasty pyramids, a sort of Hall of Records seemed to have been deliberately created: a permanent exhibition of copies or translations of archaic documents which was, at the same time, an unprecedented and unsurpassed masterpiece of scribal and hieroglyphic art.

I got to university, however, I realised that it was no bad thing to have a name which, so far as I know, has nothing but literary connections, so I reverted to Corin and have become, in a modest way, part of the contemporary scribal scene.

The end of the siege had marked the end of his scribal education, but Nakht had learned his lessons well enough to figure out the basics of most inscriptions.

University Museum secured by purchase a large six column tablet nearly complete, carrying originally, according to the scribal note, 240 lines of text.

Eventually a kind of professional scribal class came to be a part of the Christian intellectual landscape, and with the advent of professional scribes came more controlled copying practices, in which mistakes were made much less frequently.

Scholars typically differentiate today between changes that appear to have been made accidentally through scribal mistakes and those made intentionally, through some forethought.

As the ascetic tradition strengthened in early Christianity, it is not surprising to find this having an impact on scribal changes to the text.

It also entails seeing how that text came to be modified over time, both through scribal slips and as scribes made deliberate modifications.

One would have to assume, then, that these verses are a scribal alteration of the text, originally made, perhaps, as a marginal note and then eventually, at an early stage of the copying of 1 Corinthians, placed in the text itself.