Scribe
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A person who inhabits the coveted ability to read and write with elegance, especially within the Renaissance Age.
scribe (or scrivener) is an ancient profession — that of a person who could read and write. This usually involved secretarial and administrative duties such as taking of dictation and the keeping of business, judicial and historical records for kings, nobility, temples and cities. Later the profession developed into public servants, journalists, accountants and lawyers. However, present-day journalists and authors tend to be the closest to the ancient profession.
In the Bible, Jesus considers scribes to be among the particularly nefarious, along with the Pharisees.
[edit] See also
- Main : Worshipful Company of Scriveners, List of professions, Peer-to-peer, Elder , Sofer, Journalism
- Scrivener
- People : Michael William Balfe, Muhammad, John Barbour, Ibn Warraq, Baruch, Sidney Rigdon, John Milton, Beowulf, Margery Kempe
- Other : Anglo-Norman language, Irish poetry, Uncial, Mail, Melville's short story, "Bartleby the Scrivener"
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This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.
