Wisdom of Palace and Temple: Scribes in the Ancient Near East and Egypt
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https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2008.i731.191Keywords:
Scribes, Egypt, Ancient NearAbstract
The scribes were specialist that worked to the temple or palace and were indispensable to the administration, but also write and copied the texts that related the actions of govern and were presented to the gods. Scribes that caressed of liberty to write anything that neither was nor approved by the elites of temples or palaces and their work had an acculturation assignment into the norms and values that emanated from the institutions of power.
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