Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. PREFACE xi
5. INTRODUCTION A New Approach to the Bible 1
6. 1 Scribes and Their Apprentices COMMUNITIES AT WORK 9
7. PART ONE Hebrew Scribal Communities 33
8. 2 The Beginning under Egyptian Dominion 35
9. 3 In the Service of the State 55
10. 4 Refugees from the Samarian Scribal Office 75
11. PART TWO The Beginnings of the Bible
12. 5 New Scribal Communities 99
13. 6 The Prophetic Scribal Community 111
14. 7 Scribes among the People of the Land 135
15. 8 Women in the Professions 153
16. 9 Priestly Scribal Communities JERUSALEM AND THE PERIPHERY 175
17. PART THREE A Scribal Community Survives
18. 10 Exiled Scribal Communities THE STORIES OF JEREMIAH AND EZEKIEL 207
19. 11 Working with the Samaritans 231
20. 12 Ezra and Nehemiah PERSIAN SCRIBAL COMMUNITIES 252
21. Conclusion 277
22. NOTES 289
23. INDEX OF ANCIENT TEXTS 321
24. INDEX OF MODERN SCHOLARS 331
25. GENERAL INDEX 333