Chronicles and the Priestly Literature of the Hebrew Bible by Jaeyoung Jeon Louis C. Jonker

Author:Jaeyoung Jeon, Louis C. Jonker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2021-11-08T06:10:16.230000+00:00

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Conclusions

The present study could only go so far because of the sporadic nature of the evidence. I have drawn attention to the hypothetical nature of the standard traditio-historical analysis. Yet the present paper has been disappointing in that it has not been able to obviate the hypothetical aspect of our textual analysis: conjecture and hypothesis have also been a necessary part of this study. Only in four examples has it been possible to provide actual demonstration of some textual development. Also, this study’s results might seem to many readers as less exciting than some of the traditio-historical reconstructions in some of the other papers. This does not, however, licence us to ignore the need for finding evidence, as far as possible, in scribal practice. From that point of view the present study has merit. It has made the following points about scribes relevant to the issue of the conference:

- A variety of scribes with a variety of different duties are documented from various ancient Near Eastern cultures. Not all of them (e. g., the village scribe) are useful models for suggesting how biblical writings originated, but the work of elite and priestly scribes might be more helpful.

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