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by huuu
3610 days ago
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"that's a very modern idea of a job" I don't agree. A vizier [1] is very related to an accountant.
For example: Joseph (book of Genesis) became a vizier and had to account for the supplies in storehouses.
Maybe he didn't do the accounting himself, but I'm sure they had a way to write down what was in stock and what not. They also traded with surrounding countries that were out of stock, so I'm sure this was bigger than the work of a small businessman. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vizier_(Ancient_Egypt) |
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That doesn't sound like much of an accountant to me.
It would be even more strange that Kushim could be called an accountant at a time where double-entry bookkeeping hadn't been invented. There were always people who kept records, sure. But a person who went to school to learn specifically about keeping and organizing financial records and, in all likelihood, is licensed by the state to ensure that all records are kept in a consistent manner - that's what's modern. It took a very long time for accounting to be a job instead of a task you did in certain jobs. There were even auditors who worked for the government and were basically tax-collectors. But they would actually go to a business and have the owners read aloud their financial records to ensure that they were being kept and they made sense ("audit" basically means to hear).