RT Article
T1 Yahweh Performs Administrative Writing: Exodus 32:32–33 in Context of Ancient Administrative Writing Practices
JF The journal of Hebrew scriptures
VO 25
SP 1
OP 33
A1 Brown, William Hart
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1947611437
AB This article examines how Yahweh is depicted as writing in Exod 32:32–33. It dispels the notion that the scroll in Exod 32:32–33 is a book of life, and instead shows that Yahweh performs administrative writing duties by (1) analyzing how scholars often historicize Exod 32:32–33, (2) showing that כתבת in Exod 32:32–33 indicates that Yahweh wrote the scroll, and (3) situating Yahweh’s scroll and writing in the context of non-numinous ancient administrative writing.
K1 Materiality
K1 Aramaic
K1 Comparative Analysis
K1 Scribes
K1 scribal
K1 Mesopotamia
DO 10.5508/jhs29707