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What is a scribe?????????

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Answer:

a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.

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an ancient Jewish record-keeper or, later, a professional theologian and jurist.

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1: a member of a learned class who studied the Scriptures and served as copyists, editors, teachers, and jurists from ancient Israel to New Testament times. 2: a public official, secretary, or clerk 3: a journalist or a scribe is a writer who specializes in journalism. but in egypt that was a low middle class and were present to record the pharaoh's food supplies, court cases, wills and other legal documents, tax records, magic spells, and anything else that happened on a daily basis. Scribes were one of the most essential roles in maintaining order in the government.
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