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In literature the term "scribe" frequently designates a person of erudition and precision charged with the recording and transmission of important texts—be they sacred decrees, historical accounts, or creative works. It is often used in biblical and religious narratives to denote clerical figures who serve as both recorders and interpreters of divine law [1][2][3], while in other writings a scribe is celebrated for a skillful, almost artistic command of the pen [4][5]. The term also transcends its strictly clerical origins in accounts of travel and folklore, where its use emphasizes both the preservation of cultural memory and the mundane act of keeping records, as conveyed in descriptions of official documents and even in evocative urban settings like the Rue Scribe [6][7]. In this way the scribe emerges as a bridge between the past and present, embodying the continuous human need to document and legitimize our experiences, achievements, and beliefs [8][9].
  1. And Siva was scribe: and Sadoc and Abiathar, priests.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  2. And he said to Saphan the scribe: I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord: and he delivered it to him. 34:16.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  3. And Sadoc the son of Achitob, and Achimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests: and Saraias was the scribe: Scribe... Or secretary.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  4. My tongue is the pen of a scribe, writing swiftly.
    — from The City of God, Volume II by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine
  5. He thought that the art of a scribe solely consisted in possessing a good hand, and that the fairest writer would be the best scribe.
    — from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
  6. "The key of the gate to the underground passage in the Rue Scribe.
    — from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
  7. I have never been there!" "And the Rue Scribe, madame, the Rue Scribe?
    — from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
  8. Why, seeing that fate has appointed me to be ruler of an earthly paradise, did I prefer to bind myself in servitude as a scribe of lifeless documents?
    — from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
  9. It is urged indeed, that this is a scribe’s alteration to bring the passage into accordance with Ephes.
    — from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon by J. B. Lightfoot

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