Whenever your church would get a copy of one of these letters from Paul, you would have scribes, often slaves, because slaves were especially trained to be scribes.
Cut the marks you have scribed with your circular saw, and dry fit the pieces together.
Now, an adversary claims the billionaire has scribed a "ludicrous work of fiction".
Each school would have a scribe, whose responsibility it was to record the prophets words.
Visual impairment would have worried the scribe, for whom reading and writing were important (Pelling, personal communication; Franzen, 1991: p. 199) and Parkinson's disease, cerebellar tremors and thyrotoxicosis, comprising tremor and coexistent visual symptoms, should also be considered.
Ultimately, scribes would have been responsible for making linkages between future astronomical events and sacred rituals, enabling rulers to connect important public rituals with such celestial events as eclipses.
At the left edge of the fragment we can see small "pricking holes," between which the scribe would have ruled parallel lines to help him write the text straight across the page.
The script has a complete syllabary (although not all possible syllables have yet been identified), and a Maya scribe would have been able to write anything phonetically, syllable by syllable, using these symbols.
Which the ancient scribes presumably would have rendered in the Sanskrit equivalent of "Go figure".
For me, to read Safire's language columns would have been like reading a Dark Ages scribe opinionizing on the morphing of Latin into French.
It is not the way the scribes of yore would have done it but Iceland is tearing up the rulebook by drawing up its new constitution through crowdsourcing.
