scribaladj.

1693 T. Beverley Evangelical Repentance unto Salvation 103 Scribal Families signified by the House of Shimei.

1863 E. H. Plumptre in W. Smith Dict. Bible III. 1164/2 We must look back to what is known of the five pairs..of teachers who represented the scribal succession.

1896 Expositor Feb. 109 The saying..is diametrically opposed to the Scribal method of teaching.

1932 G. H. Box Judaism in Greek Period 210 Dr. Thilo regards the author as a member of the learned scribal class, and thinks that he was using Aramaic sources.

1994 A. J. Saldarini Matthew's Christian-Jewish Community iii. 48 The emerging coalitions seeking power after 70 contained elements of the Second Temple Pharisaic and scribal groups.

2003 F. E. Peters Monotheists II. ii. 37 The earliest scribal tradition in Israel, and the first to address the study of the Torah in a systematic fashion, appears to have been motivated chiefly by lawyerly and didactic concerns.

1855 R. W. Eyton Antiq. Shropshire II. 291 It is singular to observe the amount of confusion which this one scribal error has produced.

1868 R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies Pref. p. vi The scribal blunders that it contains.

1931 Classical Q. 25 152 Some other readings peculiar to Serv. Auct. are almost certainly due to faulty quotation or scribal carelessness.

1989 R. Alter Pleasures of Reading iv. 118 The received Hebrew text actually has a singular object of the verb..which could be..a scribal error caused by the recollection of Exodus 2.

2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Sept. 13/3 The scribal manuscript, unseen for a century and a half,..is expected to fetch between £3,000 and £4,000.