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  • From: "M. Brody" <mbrody AT earthling.net>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Written by Women.???
  • Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:08:50 +0200


What is literate?
It would seem that in Biblical times:
writing- is the exclusive province of professional scribes
reading- known by educated men
knowledge of the Torah- universal, because of the obligation of weekly and Festival public readings
composition/authoring [of texts, letters or business documents]- possible to anyone who could afford the services of a scribe.

Menachem Brody
Elon Moreh
www.shechem.org

At 08:44 21/02/2001 -0500, you wrote:
The fact that there is no female scribe mentioned at
Elephantine where the women were *very* liberated,
strongly suggests that they were not literate.
<snip>
Liz





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