Sometimes when we do things, the scribes, the pundits here in Washington, they act surprised.
Before Gutenberg, books were handwritten by scribes, and no two copies were exactly the same.
That, at least, is the scenario laid down by the elite and their scribes.
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Apparently the sixth-century scribes who wrote it were living in what was then Judea, somewhere in present-day Israel.
Then in the ninth century, a new set of scribes dug through St.
Activists for women's rights are calling loudly for better treatment and internet scribes are testing the limits of free speech.
Patterson does not see any kinship to those long-ago scribes, seeing himself merely as a regular guy who ended up learning something.
This transition (documented in real-time by hordes of tech scribes) will unfold over many quarters, and Oracle may ultimately emerge stronger than ever.
An iWatch will fall flat the minute Tim Cook holds up his wrist to show it to the collected tech-scribes in San Francisco.
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Then again, confusion among customers, employees and scribes alike is to be expected when rules become so convoluted that nobody can keep up.
They provide unique insights into Timbuktu's emergence as a trading post, and by the 1500s, as a famous university town, full of students and scribes.
Often made in Israel, they are created by scribes who toil, feather quill in hand, for up to a year to produce a single scroll.
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Bubbles provide curmudgeonly financial scribes with great mounds of juicy copy.
After all, as long as the computer revolution keeps charting a crazy course, programmers will continue to rely on O'Reilly's scribes to explain it to them.
For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.
"In the early era, while scribes were still working to produce books, before the printing press, you just hired a scribe if you were rich, " he continued.
The Teamsters are assisting the efforts of the music scribes, who are among the few non-unionized workers in the business (with computer effects workers being another large group).
Torah "brokers" typically arrange a match between congregations and scribes.
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Star Ellen Page received plaudits for her performance as the title character, and screenwriter Diablo Cody -- famously a former stripper -- has become one of Hollywood's "it" scribes.
The manuscript is 382 pages long, of which the first 290 pages were written by Rashid al-Din himself, and the rest by the Governor of Tabriz, Abdullah Bin Mohammad Tabrizi and two scribes.
The exhibit even displays a recipe for brewing beer, as well as lexical lists and glossaries that scribes complied and relied on and which, more recently, have been of invaluable help to scholars.
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Its scribes included Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle and Winston Churchill (who first rose to minor fame by escaping from a prisoner-of-war camp on the day before he was to have been released).
Sure, they make a whole lot more money than us lowly information age scribes, but then again they have to wake up each morning and try to satisfy that most demanding and fickle of creatures: the high tech consumer.
But the tour, a rare window into an otherwise closed community, included a fascinating peek at a morning prayer service and a visit with Hasidic scribes penning elegant scrolls with turkey feathers, not to mention kosher lunch at Mendy's deli.
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The codex (Latin for "book") dates to the sixth century, when Christian Palestinian scribes wrote down the words of Christ in Aramaic, the ancient language that is believed to have been close to the dialect spoken by the messiah himself.
We are not armed, uniformed scribes.
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