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Among the twelve scribal stints, three scribes made contributions to more than one of the books, and two books share a drawer of cadel capitals.
Incorrect, difficult or erroneous readings must have been created over time by scribal error.
Such appearances certainly suggest that the e flat in ex.3 is no scribal error for e natural.
Like ballads, libellous rhymes and verses were intended for circulation across oral, scribal, and printed media.
The text itself is ancient, handicapped by scribal errors and emendations of hostile censors over the centuries.
The textual apparatus records scribal alterations and editorial emendations as specified above.
We are told that Jeremiah dictated his words to Baruch, his scribal secretary.
The poems are written in Akkadian and Sumerian, the latter a mainly academic, scribal language, the former a Semitic language related to Hebrew and Arabic.
Although there are useful discussions here about scribal culture, the printing trade, and political communication, there is nothing to which historians will be indebted.
The scribal community similarly took the destruction of Jerusalem and fit it into the apocalyptic narrative of the destruction and return of once and future cities.
This leaves a good deal of room for scribal error and for different ways of vocalizing the consonants and indeed for regrouping consonants to give quite different words.
They have served since Ottoman times as a scribal class and are concentrated in and around villages and towns.
Her scholarship discovers new and interesting connections, and raises scribal and authorial issues which are of pertinence to any student of the period's manuscripts.
Does this reflect a scribal scruple to have the element of universal heirhood incorporated, or is this a piety of Sara herself?
Some of these were merely scribal habits resulting from local usage, but others did reflect the growing separation of the kingdoms and the centralization within each.
The role of scribal retainers, members of the financial and legal bureaucracy, is to recodify laws so that they seem to support justice while actually protecting and expanding the privilege of the ruling elites.
To be sure, ummanautu, the scholarly arts, owes its perdurance in no small measure to the scribal school.
Wasserman's suggestion of a scribal mistake or haplography would eliminate a problem and unify the collection of examples for nominal hendiadys.
Was it a simple lapsus oculi on the part of the translator, a kind of scribal error that led to an involuntary deletion?
It is now generally agreed that this one instance was a mediaeval scribal error which assumed 'mabinogion' was the plural of 'mabinogi.
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Tables similar to the one published by Rawlinson were compiled in the scribal school at Nippur.
It has been pointed out that in this case we probably have a scribal error of Swedes for Slavs.
This accounts for one or two scribal errors, which are, however, easily detected and readily corrected.
It is possible that the occurrence of Guthlaf as Garulf's father is simply a scribal error.
Surely in the scribal play illustrated in Plate V, I is acting more like a fellow-worker than the author of the work.
Larum here seems to be tautological, perhaps a scribal error.
The difference in the consonantal text between the two options can be explained by scribal error giving a resh for a dalet.
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