The bibliography is divided into three main sections as follows:
Adams, S. L., "The Social Location of the Scribe in the Second Temple Period", in J. Baden – H. Najman – E. Tigchelaar (eds.), Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls: John Collins at Seventy (JSJSup 175; Leiden: Brill, 2017) 22-37.
Askin, L. A., Scribal Culture in Ben Sira (JSJSup 184; Leiden: Brill, 2018).
Assmann, J., Fünf Stufen auf dem Wege zum Kanon: Tradition und Schriftkultur im frühen Judentum und seiner Umwelt. Vortrag anlässlich der Promotion zum D. Theol. ehrenhalber vor der Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster am 12. Januar 1998. Mit einer laudatio von H.-P. Müller (Münstersche Theologische Vorträge, 1; Münster: LIT Verlag, 1999). Reprinted as "Fünf Stufen auf dem Wege zum Kanon. Tradition und Schriftkultur im alten Israel und frühen Judentum", in J. Assmann, Religion und kulturelles Gedächtnis. Zehn Studien (München: Beck, 2000) 81-100.
Crawford, S. W., "Scribes and Libraries in Ancient Israel", in her Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2019) 49-111.
Crenshaw, J. L., "Education in Ancient Israel", JBL 104 (1985) 601-615.
Crenshaw, J. L., Education in Ancient Israel: Across the Deadening Silence (Anchor Bible Reference Library; New York: Doubleday, 1998).
Davies, G. I., "Were There Schools in Ancient Israel?", in J. Day – R. P. Gordon – H. G. M. Williamson (eds.), Wisdom in Ancient Israel. Essays in Honour of J. A. Emerton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) 199-211.
Demsky, A. – M. Bar-Ilan, "Writing in Ancient Israel and Early Judaism", in M. J. Mulder (ed.), Mikra. Text, Translation, Reading and Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum. Section 2: The Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud, Volume 1; Assen – Maastricht: Van Gorcum; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988) 1-38. [This volume was later reprinted as a paperback first at: Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2004, and then at Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2010.]
Eshel, E. – M. Langlois (eds.), The Scribe in the Biblical World: A Bridge Between Scripts, Languages and Cultures (BZAW 547; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023).
Golka, F. W., "Die israelitische Weisheitsschule oder 'des Kaisers neue Kleider'", VT 33 (1983) 257-270.
Grabbe, L. L., "Scribes, Writing, and Epigraphy in the Second Temple Period", in E. Eshel – Y. Levin (eds.), 'See, I Will Bring a Scroll Recounting What Befell Me' (Ps 40:8): Epigraphy and Daily Life from the Bible to the Talmud, Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Hanan Eshel (JAJSup 12; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014) 105-121.
Haran, M., "On the Diffusion of Literacy and Schools in Ancient Israel", in J. A. Emerton (ed.), Congress Volume Jerusalem 1986 (VTSup 40; Leiden: Brill, 1988) 81-95.
Heaton, E. W., The School Tradition in the Old Testament. The Bampton Lectures for 1994 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994).
Jamieson-Drake, D. W., Scribes and Schools in Monarchic Judah: A Socio-Archeological Approach (JSOTSup 109 / The Social World of Biblical Antiquity, 9; Sheffield: Almond Press, 1991).
Lang, B., "Schule und Unterricht im alten Israel", in M. Gilbert (ed.), La Sagesse de l'Ancien Testament. (Journées bibliques de Louvain 29) (BETL 51; Gembloux: Duculot; Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1979) 186-201. Reprinted [same title] in B. Lang, Wie wird man Prophet in Israel? Aufsätze zum Alten Testament (Düsseldorf: Patmos, 1980) 104-119. [An updated version of the paper appeared in: M. Gilbert (ed.), La Sagesse de l'Ancien Testament. Nouvelle édition mise à jour (BETL 51; Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1990).]
Lemaire, A., Les écoles et la formation de la Bible dans l'ancien Israël (OBO 39; Fribourg: Éditions Universitaires; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1981); = Le scuole e la formazione della Bibbia nell'Israele antico (Studi biblici, 57; Brescia: Paideia, 1981).
Lemaire, A., "Sagesse et écoles", VT 34 (1984) 270-281. [reply to Golka 1983]
Lemaire, A. – J. T. Townsend, "Education: 2. Ancient Israel; 3. Greco-Roman Period", ABD II (1992) 305-312.312-317. [for the first part on Mesopotamia, see below s.v. Civil]
Lemaire, A., "Scribes. II. Ancien Testament – Ancien Israël", DBSup 12 (1996) 253-266 [for the ancient Near Eastern material see below in the second section s.v. Lemaire; the article first appeared in Fasc. 66 (1992) and 67 (1993)]
Lemaire, A., "Schools and Literacy in Ancient Israel and Early Judaism", in L. G. Perdue (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to the Hebrew Bible (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001) 207-217.
Leuchter, M. (ed.), "Scribes Before and After 587 BCE: A Conversation", JHS volume 7, article 10 (2007): online here.
Leuchter, M. (ed.), Scribes and Scribalism (The Hebrew Bible in Social Perspective; London & New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2020).
Lipiński, E., "Royal and State Scribes in Ancient Jerusalem", in J. A. Emerton (ed.), Congress Volume Jerusalem 1986 (VTSup 40; Leiden: Brill, 1988) 157-164.
Liwak, R., "'Was wir gehört und kennengelernt und unsere Väter uns erzählt haben' (Ps 78,3): Überlegungen zum Schulbetrieb im Alten Israel", in E. Axmacher – K. Schwarzwäller (eds.), Belehrter Glaube: Festschrift für J. Wirsching zum 65. Geburtstag (Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, 1994) 175-193. Reprinted [same title] in R. Liwak, Israel in der altorientalischen Welt: Gesammelte Studien zur Kultur- und Religionsgeschichte des antiken Israel. Hrsg. von Markus Witte und Dagmar Pruin (BZAW 444; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013) 216-234.
Milstein, S. J., Tracking the Master Scribe: Revision Through Introduction in Biblical and Mesopotamian Literature (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).
Olivier, J. P. J., "Schools and Wisdom Literature", JNSL 4 (1975) 49-60.
Person, R. F., "The Ancient Israelite Scribe as Performer", JBL 117 (1998) 601-609.
Person, R. F., "Education and the Transmission of Tradition", in S. Niditch (ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Ancient Israel (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion; Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2016) 366-378.
Puech, E., "Les écoles dans l'Israël préexilique: données epigraphiques", in J. A. Emerton (ed.), Congress Volume Jerusalem 1986 (VTSup 40; Leiden: Brill, 1988) 189-203.
Quick, L., "Recent Research on Ancient Israelite Education: A Bibliographic Essay", CBR 13.1 (Oct. 2014) 9-33.
Renz, J., Schrift und Schreibertradition: Eine paläographische Studie zum kulturgeschichtlichen Verhältnis von israelitischem Nordreich und Südreich (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1997).
Richelle, M., "Literacy and Scribalism in Israel during the Iron Age (ca. 1200/1150-586 BCE)", in K. H. Keimer – G. A. Pierce (eds.), The Ancient Israelite World (Routledge Worlds; Abingdon, Oxon & New York: Routledge, 2023) 335-347.
Ro, J. Unsok – B. D. Giffone (eds.), Inscribe It in a Book: Scribal Practice, Cultural Memory, and the Making of the Hebrew Scriptures (FAT II/139; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022).
Rollston, C., "Scribal Education in Ancient Israel: The Old Hebrew Epigraphic Evidence", BASOR 344 (Nov. 2006) 47-74.
Rollston, C. A., "Scribal Curriculum during the First Temple Period: Epigraphic Hebrew and Biblical Evidence", in B. B. Schmidt (ed.), Contextualizing Israel's Sacred Writings: Ancient Literacy, Orality, and Literary Production (SBLAIL 22; Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2015) 71-101.
Rollston, C., "Inscriptional Evidence for the Writings of the Earliest Texts of the Bible – Intellectual Infrastructure in Tenth- and Ninth-Century Israel, Judah, and the Southern Levant", in J. C. Gertz – B. M. Levinson – D. Rom-Shiloni – K. Schmid (eds.), The Formation of the Pentateuch: Bridging the Academic Cultures of Europe, Israel, and North America (FAT 111; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016) 15-45.
Sanders, S. L., From Adapa to Enoch: Scribal Culture and Religious Vision in Judea and Babylon (TSAJ 167; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017).
Schams, C., Jewish Scribes in the Second-Temple Period (JSOTSup 291; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998).
Schmid, K., "Schreiber/Schreiberausbildung in Israel", RGG4 7 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004) 1001-1002.
Schniedewind, W. M., "Understanding Scribal Education in Ancient Israel: A View from Kuntillet ‘Ajrud", Maarav 21 (2014) 271-293.
Schniedewind, W. M., "Scribal Education in Ancient Israel and Judah into the Persian Period", in J. M. Zurawski – G. Boccaccini (eds.), Second Temple Jewish 'Paideia' in Context (BZNW 228; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017) 11-28.
Schniedewind, W. M., The Finger of the Scribe: How Scribes Learned to Write the Bible (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
Tov, E., Scribal Practices and Approaches Reflected in the Texts Found in the Judean Desert (STDJ 54; Leiden: Brill, 2004).
Tov, E., "Scribal Practices and Approaches Revisited", HeBAI 3 (2014) 363-374. Revised version [same title] in E. Tov, Textual Developments: Collected Essays, Volume 4 (VTSup 181; Leiden: Brill, 2019) 448-457.
Tov, E., "Approaches of Scribes to the Biblical Text in Ancient Israel", in E. Eshel – M. Langlois (eds.), The Scribe in the Biblical World: A Bridge Between Scripts, Languages and Cultures (BZAW 547; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023) 3-21.
Vayntrub, J., "The Book of Proverbs and the Idea of Ancient Israelite Education", ZAW 128 (2016) 96-114.
Weeks, S., Early Israelite Wisdom (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), esp. 132-156.
Whisenant, J., "Let the Stones Speak! Document Production by Iron Age West Semitic Scribal Institutions and the Question of Biblical Sources", in B. B. Schmidt (ed.), Contextualizing Israel's Sacred Writings: Ancient Literacy, Orality, and Literary Production (SBLAIL 22; Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2015) 133-160.
Whybray, R. N., The Intellectual Tradition in the Old Testament (BZAW 135; Berlin: De Gruyter, 1974), esp. 31-43.
Zhakevich, P., Scribal Tools in Ancient Israel: A Study of Biblical Hebrew Terms for Writing Materials and Implements (History, Archaeology, and Culture of the Levant, 9; University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns – Penn State University Press, 2020).
Byrne, R., "The Refuge of Scribalism", BASOR 345 (Feb. 2007) 1-31.
Civil, M., "Education: 1. Education in Mesopotamia", ABD II (1992) 301-305. [for the other parts of the article see above s.v. Lemaire & Townsend]
Cohen, Y., The Scribes and Scholars of the City of Emar in the Late Bronze Age (HSS 59; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2009).
Crawford, S. W., "Scribes and Libraries in the Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean Worlds", in her Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2019) 21-48.
Crisostomo, C. J., "Writing Sumerian, Creating Texts: Reflections on Text-Building Practices in Old Babylonian Schools", JANER 15 (2015) 121-142.
Demsky, A., "The Education of Canaanite Scribes in the Mesopotamian Cuneiform Tradition", in J. Klein – A. Skaist (eds.), Bar-Ilan Studies in Assyriology Dedicated to Pinḥas Artzi (Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1990) 157-170.
Devecchi, E. (ed.), Palaeography and Scribal Practices in Syro-Palestine and Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age. Papers Read at a Symposium in Leiden, 17-18 December 2009 (PIHANS, Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden, 119; Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2012).
Egmond, W. S. van – W. H. van Soldt (eds.), Theory and Practice of Knowledge Transfer: Studies in School Education in the Ancient Near East and Beyond. Papers Read at a Symposium in Leiden, 17-19 December 2008 (PIHANS, Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabijie Oosten te Leiden, 121; Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2012).
Ellison, J. L., "The Scribal Art at Ugarit", in J. M. Hutton – A. D. Rubin (eds.), Epigraphy, Philology, and the Hebrew Bible: Methodological Perspectives on Philological and Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible in Honor of Jo Ann Hackett (ANEM 12; Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2015) 157-190. The book can be downloaded freely here.
Eshel, E. – M. Langlois (eds.), The Scribe in the Biblical World: A Bridge Between Scripts, Languages and Cultures (BZAW 547; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023).
Ferrara, S., "Writing Away: Mobility and Versatility of Scribes at the End of the Bronze Age", Oxford Journal of Archaeology 35 (2016) 227-245.
George, A. R., "In Search of the é-dub.ba.a: The Ancient Mesopotamian School in Literature and Reality", in Y. Sefati – P. Artzi – C. Cohen – B. L. Eichler – V. A. Hurowitz (eds.), "An Experienced Scribe Who Neglects Nothing". Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Jacob Klein (Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2005) 127-137.
Gesche, P., Schulunterricht in Babylonien im ersten Jahrtausend v. Chr. (AOAT 275; Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2001).
Gordin, S., Hittite Scribal Circles: Scholarly Tradition and Writing Habits (Studien zu den Bogazköy-Texten, 59; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015).
Horowitz, W. – T. Oshima – S. Sanders (eds.), Cuneiform in Canaan: Cuneiform Sources from the Land of Israel in Ancient Times (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2006).
Huehnergard, J.– W. van Soldt, "A Cuneiform Lexical Text from Ashkelon with Canaanite Column", IEJ 49 (1999) 184-192.
Izre’el, Sh., The Amarna Scholarly Tablets (Cuneiform Monographs, 9; Groningen: STYX, 1997).
Lemaire, A., "Scribes. I. Scribes: Proche-Orient ancien", DBSup 12 (1996) 244-253. [for the rest of the article see above in the Ancient Israel section s.v. Lemaire]
Lemaire, A., "Aramaic Literacy and School in Elephantine", Maarav 21 (2014) 295-307.
Lemaire, A., "West Semitic Royal Scribes ca. 1250–600 BCE", in E. Eshel – M. Langlois (eds.), The Scribe in the Biblical World: A Bridge Between Scripts, Languages and Cultures (BZAW 547; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023) 23-46.
Lipiński, E., "Scribes d'Ugarit et de Jérusalem", in H. L. J. Vanstiphout – K. Jongeling – F. Leemhuis – G. J. Reinink (eds.), Scripta Signa Vocis. Studies about Scripts, Scriptures, Scribes and Languages in the Near East, Presented to J. H. Hospers (Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1986) 143-154.
Milstein, S. J., Tracking the Master Scribe: Revision Through Introduction in Biblical and Mesopotamian Literature (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).
Pearce, L. E., "The Scribes and Scholars of Ancient Mesopotamia", in J. M. Sasson (ed.), Civilizations of the Ancient Near East (New York: Scribner's, 1995) 2265-2278.
Pernigotti, S. (ed.), Scuola e cultura nell'Egitto del Nuovo Regno. Le "Miscellanee neo-egiziane" (TVOA 1/6; Brescia: Paideia, 2005).
Reade, J., "Visual Evidence for the Status and Activities of Assyrian Scribes", in G. B. Lanfranchi – D. Morandi Bonacossi – C. Pappi – S. Ponchia (eds.), Leggo! Studies Presented to Frederick Mario Fales on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday (Leipziger Altorientalische Studien, 2; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012) 699-717.
Robson, E., "The Tablet House: A Scribal School in Old Babylonian Nippur", Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale 95 (2001) 39-66.
Saadé, G., "La vie intellectuelle et l'enseignement à Ougarit", in L. Eslinger – G. Taylor (eds.), Ascribe to the Lord. Biblical and Other Studies in Memory of Peter C. Craigie (JSOTSup 67; Sheffield: JSOT, 1988) 69-90.
Sanders, S. L., From Adapa to Enoch: Scribal Culture and Religious Vision in Judea and Babylon (TSAJ 167; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017).
Sasson, J. M., "The Burden of Scribes", in T. Abusch (ed.), Riches Hidden in Secret Places: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Memory of Thorkild Jacobsen (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2002) 211-228.
Soldt, W. H. van, "Babylonian Lexical, Religious and Literary Texts and Scribal Education at Ugarit and its Implications for the Alphabetic Literary Texts", in M. Dietrich – O. Loretz (eds.), Ugarit: Ein ostmediterranes Kulturzentrum im Alten Orient. Ergebnisse und Perspektive der Forschung. Band 1: Ugarit und seine altorientalische Umwelt (Abhandlungen zur Literatur Alt-Syrien-Palästinas, 7; Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 1995) 171-212.
Soldt, W. H. van, "School and Scribal Tradition in Ugarit", in S. Yamada – D. Shibata (eds.), Cultures and Societies in the Middle Euphrates and Habur Areas in the Second Millenium BC, I: Scribal Education and Scribal Traditions (Studia Chaburensia, 5; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016) 145-155.
Toorn, K. van der, "Cuneiform Documents from Syria-Palestine: Texts, Scribes, and Schools", ZDPV 116 (2000) 97-113. Reprinted with slight revisions as "Cuneiform in Syria-Palestine: Texts, Scribes, and Schools", in K. van der Toorn, God in Context. Selected Essays on Society and Religion in the Early Middle East (FAT 123; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018) 139-155.
Toorn, K. van der, "The Art of Compilation", in K. van der Toorn, God in Context. Selected Essays on Society and Religion in the Early Middle East (FAT 123; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018) 221-235. [previously unpublished]
Velde, H. te, "Scribes and Literacy in Ancient Egypt", in H. L. J. Vanstiphout – K. Jongeling – F. Leemhuis – G. J. Reinink (eds.), Scripta Signa Vocis. Studies about Scripts, Scriptures, Scribes and Languages in the Near East, Presented to J. H. Hospers (Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1986) 253-264.
Veldhuis, N., "Intellectual History and Assyriology", JANEH 1 (2014) 21-36.
Visicato, G., The Power and the Writing: The Early Scribes of Mesopotamia (Bethesda, MD: CDL, 2000).
Volk, K., "Edubba’a und Edubba’a-Literatur: Rätsel und Lösungen", ZA 90 (2000) 1-30.
Williams, R. J., "Scribal Training in Ancient Egypt", JAOS 92 (1972) 214-221.
Yamada, S. – D. Shibata (eds.), Cultures and Societies in the Middle Euphrates and Habur Areas in the Second Millenium BC, I: Scribal Education and Scribal Traditions (Studia Chaburensia, 5; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016).
Beckwith, R. T., "Formation of the Hebrew Bible", in M. J. Mulder (ed.), Mikra. Text, Translation, Reading and Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum. Section 2: The Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud, Volume 1; Assen – Maastricht: Van Gorcum; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988) 39-86. [This volume was later reprinted as a paperback first at: Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2004, and then at Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2010.]
Ben Zvi, E., "The Urban Center of Jerusalem and the Development of the Hebrew Bible", in W. E. Aufrecht – N. A. Mirau – S. W. Gauley (eds.), Aspects of Urbanism in Antiquity: From Mesopotamia to Crete (JSOTSup 244; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997) 194-209.
Berthelot, K., "The Formation of the Hebrew Bible in a Greco-Roman Context in Light of the Evidence from Qumran", in P. Dubovský – F. Giuntoli (eds.), Stones, Tablets, and Scrolls: Periods of the Formation of the Bible (Archaeology and Bible, 3; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020) 395-409.
Bosshard-Nepustil, E., Schriftwerdung der Hebräischen Bibel: Thematisierungen der Schriftlichkeit biblischer Texte im Rahmen ihrer Literaturgeschichte (ATANT 106; Zürich: Theologischer Verlag, 2015).
Carr, D. M., Writing on the Tablet of the Heart: Origins of Scripture and Literature (Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press, 2005). German version: Schrift und Erinnerungskultur: die Entstehung der Bibel und der antiken Literatur im Rahmen der Schreiberausbildung (ATANT 107; Zürich: Theologischer Verlag, 2015).
Carr, D. M., "Torah on the Heart: Literary Jewish Textuality Within Its Ancient Near Eastern Context", Oral Tradition 25 (2010) 17-39. Can be downloaded here.
Carr, D. M., The Formation of the Hebrew Bible: A New Reconstruction (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Carr, D. M., "The Formation of the Hebrew Bible: Sources, Compositional Layers, and Other Revisions", in S. Niditch (ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Ancient Israel (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion; Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2016) 103-117.
Carr, D. M., "Rethinking the Materiality of Biblical Texts: From Source, Tradition and Redaction to a Scroll Approach", ZAW 132 (2020) 594-621.
Davies, P. R., Scribes and Schools: The Canonization of the Hebrew Scriptures (Library of Ancient Israel; Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1998).
Davies, P. R. – T. Römer (eds.), Writing the Bible: Scribes, Scribalism and Script (BibleWorld; Durham: Acumen, 2013).
Dershowitz, I., The Dismembered Bible. Cutting and Pasting Scripture in Antiquity (FAT 143; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021).
Dubovský, P. – Giuntoli, F. (eds.), Stones, Tablets, and Scrolls: Periods of the Formation of the Bible (Archaeology and Bible, 3; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020).
Elgvin, T., "Post-Exilic History and Archaeology and the Formation of Biblical Literature", in M. Lubetski – E. Lubetski (eds.), Epigraphy, Iconography, and the Bible (Hebrew Bible Monographs, 98; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2022) 243-279.
Finkelstein, I. – N. A. Silberman, The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts (New York: The Free Press, 2001). (for full details about various translations see here.)
Geoghegan, J. C., "The Levites and the Literature of the Late-Seventh Century", JHS volume 7, article 10 (2007) [part of multi-author article "Scribes Before and After 587 BCE: A Conversation", edited by M. Leuchter]: online here.
Ghormley, J. T., Scribes Writing Scripture: Doublets, Textual Divination, and the Formation of the Book of Jeremiah (VTSup 189; Leiden: Brill, 2022).
Grund-Wittenberg, A., "Literalität und Institution: Auf der Suche nach lebensweltlichen Kontexten der Literaturwerdung im alten Israel", ZAW 129 (2017) 327-345. Reprinted in A. Grund-Wittenberg, Lebenswelt und Gemeinschaft. Beiträge zur Anthropologie des Alten Testaments (BThSt 183; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020) 110-133.
Grund-Wittenberg, A., "Schreiberkultur und Schriftentstehung. Aktuelle Arbeiten zur Textuality-Forschung", VF 64 (2019) 4-18.
Hendel, R. S., "What is a Biblical Book?", in C. Werman (ed.), From Author to Copyist: Essays on the Composition, Redaction, and Transmission of the Hebrew Bible in Honor of Zipi Talshir (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015) 283-302. Revised version in R. Hendel, Steps to a New Edition of the Hebrew Bible (Text-Critical Studies, 10; Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2016) 101-125.
Hezser, C., "Jewish Scribes in the Late Second Temple Period: Differences between the Composition, Writing, and Interpretation of Texts", in R. Hakola – J. Orpana – P. Huotari (eds.), Scriptures in the Making: Texts and Their Transmission in Late Second Temple Judaism (CBET 109; Leuven: Peeters, 2023) 149-173.
Kratz, R. G., "Jüdische Archive", in his Historisches und biblisches Israel. Drei Überblicke zum Alten Testament. Zweite, durchgesehene und erweiterte Auflage (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017) 181-300. [first edition 2013, pp. 181-291]. English version: Historical and Biblical Israel: The History, Tradition, and Archives of Israel and Judah (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015). Edizione italiana: Israele storico e biblico: storia, tradizione, archivi. Edizione italiana a cura di Paola Mollo (Subsidia biblica, 54; Roma: Gregorian & Biblical Press, 2020).
Leuchter, M., "Zadokites, Deuteronomists, and the Exilic Debate Over Scribal Authority", JHS volume 7, article 10 (2007) [part of multi-author article "Scribes Before and After 587 BCE: A Conversation", edited by M. Leuchter]: online here.
Levinson, B. M., Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Müller, R., "Was die Textgeschichte über die Entstehung des Alten Testaments lehren kann", TLZ 142 (2017) 709-723.
Niditch, S., "The Role of Orality and Textuality, Folklore and Scribalism in the Historical Books", in B. E. Kelle – B. A. Strawn (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible (Oxford Handbooks; Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2020) 393-405.
Niemann, H. M., "Kein Ende des Büchermachens in Israel und Juda (Koh 12,12) – wann begann es?", BK 53 (1998) 127-134. Reprinted [same title] in H. M. Niemann, History of Ancient Israel, Archaeology, and Bible: Collected Essays / Geschichte Israels, Archäologie und Bibel: gesammelte Aufsätze. Herausgegeben von M. Gerhards (AOAT 418; Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2015) 127-138.
Otto, E., "Scribal Scholarship in the Formation of Torah and Prophets: A Postexilic Scribal Debate between Priestly Scholarship and Literary Prophecy – The Example of the Book of Jeremiah and its Relation to the Pentateuch", in G. N. Knoppers – B. M. Levinson (eds.), The Pentateuch as Torah: New Models for Understanding Its Promulgation and Acceptance (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2007) 171-184.
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