Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Books that are Not Books: Writing in the World of the Bible 9
7. 2. Authorship in Antiquity: Practice and Perception 27
8. 3. In Search of the Scribes, I: Comparative Evidence 51
9. 4. In Search of the Scribes, Ii: The Biblical Evidence 75
10. 5. Making Books: Scribal Modes of Text Production 109
11. 6. The Teaching of Moses: Scribal Culture in the Mirror of Deuteronomy 143
12. 7. Manufacturing the Prophets: The Book of Jeremiah as Scribal Artifact 173
13. 8. Inventing Revelation: The Scribal Construct of Holy Writ 205
14. 9. Constructing the Canon: The Closure of the Hebrew Bible 233
15. Notes 267
16. Selected Bibliography 367
17. Index 393