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sofer
In Judaism, a scholar-teacher of the 5th-2nd cent. BC who transcribed, edited, and interpreted the Bible. The first sofer was Ezra, who, with his disciples, initiated a tradition of rabbinical scholarship that is still central in Judaism. It arose to meet the specific need of applying the idealistic aspirations of the Torah and oral tradition to everyday life, thus in effect codifying Mosaic law. The soferim were important historically for having fixed the canon of the Old Testament. Later the term sofer came to refer to one who taught the Bible to children or who was qualified to write Torah scrolls.
Souter
U.S. jurist. Born in Melrose, Mass., he graduated from Harvard Law School and soon joined the state attorney general's office. He was promoted to state attorney general in 1976, to the state's Superior Court in 1978, and to its Supreme Court in 1983. In 1990 he was appointed by Pres. G. Bush to the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and later that year to the U.S. Supreme Court. His decisions, conservative at the outset, have generally moved toward the center on most issues.
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