then there was the other kind of scribe , the great scribe who had studied the law , who had spent years in the libraries of the temple , the scribe who knew the traditions of the pharisees , the scribe who could dispute with the essenes when they criticized the temple or the priesthood , a scribe who could instruct the boys who came to the temple to learn all that was contained in the law and the prophets and in the psalms and in the writings , hundreds and hundreds of books of writing apart from these .