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What are scribes similar to in modern days?

2006-12-04 14:48:36 · 16 answers · asked by ? 2 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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Well, I was going to say photocopiers, but they are often not accurate enough to be called photocopiers. How about mimeograph machines? Yeah, scribes = mimeograph machines in modern days.

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2006-12-04 14:55:14 · answer #1 · answered by carole 7 · 0 0

Most people did not know how to write in those days, so they had to go to a trained scribe to write up official documents. Scribes charged by the letter. Since many folks couldn't count, either, scribes often became very rich.

2006-12-04 14:55:50 · answer #2 · answered by guitar teacher 3 · 0 0

"scribes" of ancient times would be similar to a copy machine of today, but with some significant differences.
They would be copy machines that are terribly slow, that are prone to errors, and that are never guaranteed to provide an exact copy coming out of what went in.
Transcription errors are rife in the very few examples of biblical texts for which we have earlier and later versions copied by scribes. There are also, in the few such examples, obvious *intentional* changes to the texts being copied -- made possibly because the scribe felt word usage was incorrect in some cases, and in others obviously to change the meaning of passages to be more in line with then-current thinking.
So actually I guess they would be slow-error prone copying machines with an attitude and an agenda ;-)

2006-12-04 14:54:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

the scribes were part of a religious tri cameron made up of the scribes the pharisees and the saducees that made up the Jewish sanhedrin ( like the supreme court) theese are the ones responsible for persecuting and killing Jesus and some of his Apostles

2006-12-04 16:25:48 · answer #4 · answered by gorbalizer 5 · 0 0

Scribes

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From G1121; a writer, that is, (professionally) scribe or secretary: - scribe, town-clerk.

2006-12-04 14:52:19 · answer #5 · answered by BrotherMichael 6 · 0 0

Tammuz is a existence-dying-rebirth deity who's noted interior the Bible (Ezekiel 8:14). He became right into a solar god who, in his daily cycle, rose from his cave interior the morning, travelled around the sky with the aid of day, in the previous returning to his cave at night. Mithras became into buried in a tomb from which he rose lower back from the ineffective – an journey celebrated each year (spring equinox) with a lot rejoicing. Attis Adonis

2016-10-04 21:35:20 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Kenites

2006-12-04 14:50:06 · answer #7 · answered by Royal Racer Hell=Grave © 7 · 0 0

Serious answer - lawyers.

(I'm assuming you mean the Jewish scribes Jesus criticised).

2006-12-04 14:51:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Printing presses and copy machines.

2006-12-04 14:50:10 · answer #9 · answered by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 · 0 0

religious leaders who translated the bible or made copies of the bible. They wanted people they could trust to make them a copy.
didn't have copy machines.

2006-12-04 14:52:59 · answer #10 · answered by Steven 6 · 0 0

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