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  2. Ktav Stam - Wikipedia

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    Ktav Stam (Hebrew: כְּתַב־סְתָ״ם ‎) is the specific Jewish traditional writing with which holy scrolls (Sifrei Kodesh), tefillin and mezuzot are written. Stam is a Hebrew acronym denoting these writings, as indicated by the gershayim (״ ‎) punctuation mark. One who writes such articles is called a sofer stam.

  3. Scribe - Wikipedia

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    Jewish scribes at the Tomb of Ezekiel in Iraq, c. 1914. The Jewish scribes used the following rules and procedures while creating copies of the Torah and eventually other books in the Hebrew Bible. [73] They could only use clean animal skins, both to write on, and even to bind manuscripts.

  4. Sofer - Wikipedia

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    A sofer at work, Ein Bokek, Israel A sofer sews together the pieces of parchment A sofer, sopher, sofer SeTaM, or sofer ST"M (Hebrew: סופר סת״ם, "scribe"; plural soferim, סופרים) is a Jewish scribe who can transcribe Sifrei Kodesh (holy scrolls), tefillin (phylacteries), mezuzot (ST"M, סת״ם, is an abbreviation of these three terms) and other religious writings.

  5. List of ancient Egyptian scribes - Wikipedia

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    The hieroglyph used to signify the scribe, to write, and "writings", etc., is Gardiner sign Y3, from the category of: 'writings, games, & music'. The hieroglyph contains the scribe's writing palette, a vertical case to hold writing-reeds, and a leather pouch to hold the colored ink blocks, mostly black and red.

  6. Tiqqun soferim - Wikipedia

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    The first to use the term tiqqun soferim was Shimon ben Pazi (an amora); previously, the tannaim had used the phrase kina hakatuv ("the verse used a euphemism") in reference to the same verses.

  7. Skeletons reveal what life was like for elite scribes in ...

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    Scribes were high-status men with the ability to write and were part of the 1% of the population that was literate, according to the authors of a new study published Thursday in the journal ...

  8. Aquila of Sinope - Wikipedia

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    Only fragments of this translation have survived in what remains of fragmentary documents taken from the Books of Kings and the Psalms found in the old Cairo Geniza in Fustat, Egypt, while excerpts taken from the Hexapla written in the glosses of certain manuscripts of the Septuagint were collected earlier and published by Frederick Field in his influential work, Origenis Hexaplorum quæ ...

  9. Cairo Geniza - Wikipedia

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    The Cairo Geniza, alternatively spelled the Cairo Genizah, is a collection of some 400,000 [1] Jewish manuscript fragments and Fatimid administrative documents that were kept in the genizah or storeroom of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat or Old Cairo, Egypt. [2]