Wisdom of Palace and Temple: Scribes in the Ancient Near East and Egypt

The scribes were specialist that worked to the temple or palace and were indispensable to the administration, but also write and copied the texts that related the actions of govern and were presented to the gods. Scribes that caressed of liberty to write anything that neither was nor approved by the elites of temples or palaces and their work had an acculturation assignment into the norms and values that emanated from the institutions of power. Los escribas eran unos especialistas que trabajaban para el templo o el palacio y permitían el funcionamiento de la administración, pero también eran los encargados de componer, copiar y transmitir los logros de sus gobernantes y presentarlos ante los dioses y la sociedad, careciendo de libertad para escribir textos que no emanaran directamente de los templos o palacios, teniendo su trabajo un carácter “aculturador” e “integrador” en unas normas y valores vinculadas a las instituciones de poder