The term scribe translates Greek (See also NT) and Hebrew (See also OT) words related to writing and thus originally denoted something like a secretary who was concerned with written records and administration (cf. Judges 5:14; 2 Kings 22; Jeremiah 36:10, 32). Following the exile, scribes developed into a distinctive professional learned class of teachers, interpreters, and administrators of the law (sometimes termed "lawyers," e.g., Luke 7:30). In the NT they are closely associated with the Pharisees and elders as leaders of the Jewish people almost always in opposition to Jesus and the early church (e.g., Mark 7:5; Acts 4:5).

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