“I’ll take a shared scribal training environment for $1,000, Alex”
Me too.
And a question I have about that whole period is what was the social organization that supplied clerics and scribes a livelihood at most or at least their sustenance. Who “paid” for them, and how??
Likely the same way scribes are supported today. Groups and individuals commission or purchase scrolls, tefillin, and mezuzahs.
The scrolls were dated to about 200 BC, so during the Hellenistic period after Alexander the Great, and during the Second Temple period. Scribes and priests were supported by tithes and sacrifices at the temple...................