This is about scribe, the profession. For the New Zealand rapper, please see Scribe (rapper). For scribing in graffiti, see scribing (graffiti).
Scribe (or Scrivener) is an ancient profession, a person who could read and write. This usually indicated secretarial and administrative duties such as dictation and keeping business, judicial, and history records for rulers such as kings, nobility, temples, and cities. Later the profession developed for example into public servants, accountants, and lawyers.
See also
- Main : Worshipful Company of Scriveners, List of professions, Peer-to-peer, Elder , Sofer
- 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
External links
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public ___domain: Easton, Matthew George (1897). Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)