Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Review of Schniedewind, The Finger of the Scribe

H-JUDAIC REVIEW:
van der Toorn on Schniedewind, 'The Finger of the Scribe: The Beginnings of Scribal Education and How It Shaped the Hebrew Bible'

Author: William M. Schniedewind
Reviewer: Karel van der Toorn

William M. Schniedewind. The Finger of the Scribe: The Beginnings of Scribal Education and How It Shaped the Hebrew Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 248 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-005246-1.

Reviewed by Karel van der Toorn (University of Amsterdam) Published on H-Judaic (March, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

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