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The Scribe belonged to a well-defined and exclusive caste,
They were the only Egyptians who knew how to read and write, standing out from the surrounding illiteracy by their command of the secret skills of reading and writing.
These qualifications were considered a privilege shared only with the rulers and the gods,
They did not perform any physical labor, had soft hands and clean clothes.
Scribes were essential to intellectual life and considered the principal artists of culture, the concept of education and its significance was widespread among the Ancient Egyptians, which is highlighted in most of their literature.
A scribe's duties ranged from writing letters for townspeople, to recording harvests, to keeping accounts for the Egyptian army
Everything had to be noted down, from the number of bags of grain harvested to the building supplies, work attendance, paid wages and gifts that followed the deceased into the next world or were daily sacrificed in his honor by the funerary priests.
Although their basic task was administrative in nature, throughout Egypt's history scribes were the keepers of the oral tradition, which has survived to modern times.
They went beyond simply preserving the old texts and instead and had the creativity to edit and revise the theological,
liturgical, medical, and magical texts. Among such texts were biographies, instructions, literary, historical, political and propaganda writings
By the time of the New Kingdom, this ability to compose new literary texts was widespread.
Texts preserved from this period onward present new stories and other types of literature that were not known before.
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