Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Note on Transcriptions and Biblical and Rabbinical Quotations ix
5. Prologue xi
6. One. An Elusive Book?
7. A Strangely Plural Singular 3
8. Bibles, Canons, and Languages 11
9. Prophets, Texts, and Books 18
10. Two. Bible Object, Bible in Pieces
11. The Bible in Boxes 30
12. The Bible in Scrolls 35
13. The Bible in Person 40
14. The Bible in Pieces 44
15. Three. The Improbable Locus of an Identity
16. The Bible and Jewishness 57
17. The Greeks, the Arabs, and Us 66
18. Facing the Christians: Their Scriptures and Ours 77
19. The Karaite Temptation: Scripture Alone? 87
20. Four. Reading the Bible at the Risk of Heresy
21. Children, Women, the People 93
22. The Scholars’ Bible 101
23. The “Immense Ocean” of Commentaries 116
24. Five. The Bible of the Moderns
25. The Critical Age, or the Bible Humiliated 123
26. Toward a Postcritical Age, or the Bible Redeemed 130
27. The Political Age, or the Bible Manifesto 136
28. Epilogue 153
29. Notes 163
30. Glossary 201
31. Select Bibliography 211
32. Index 229