scribality

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, scribal +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɹaɪˈbælɪti/, /skɹɪˈbælɪti/

Noun

scribality

1. The practice of using scribes.
   • 1996, Ian H. Henderson, chapter 2, in Jesus, Rhetoric and Law, →ISBN, page 186:

     The scribal culture of the technical wisdom movement, the mnemotechnical oral scribality of the pre-mishnaic rabbis and the scribality of monks produced noticeably different texts.

   • 2004, Jonathan Draper, quoting Werner H. Kelber, Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Antiquity, Brill, →ISBN, Roman Imperialism and Early Christian Scribality, page 135:

     As a rule, those in positions of power shared a vested interest in advancing the cause of scribality because control over the medium allowed them to govern the public discourse.

   • 2013, Joanna Dewey, chapter 7, in The Oral Ethos of the Early Church […] (Biblical Performance Criticism; volume 8), Wipf and Stock, →ISBN, page 109:

     He has stressed, first, the great differences between a manuscript and a printed text, and second, the multiple interactions between orality and scribality in the first century, including the variability of early manuscripts.