Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Books That Are Not Books: Writing in the World of the Bible

2. Authorship in Antiquity: Practice and Perception

3. In Search of the Scribes, I: Comparative Evidence

4. In Search of the Scribes, II: The Biblical Evidence

5. Making Books: Scribal Modes of Text Production

6. The Teaching of Moses: Scribal Culture in the Mirror of Deuteronomy

7. Manufacturing the Prophets: The Book of Jeremiah as Scribal Artifact

8. Inventing Revelation: The Scribal Construct of Holy Writ

9. Constructing the Canon: The Closure of the Hebrew Bible

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index