Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Thomas Romer and Philip R. Davies Part I Writing in the Ancient World 2. Ilimilku of Ugarit: Copyist or Creator? Adrian Curtis 3. Memory, Writing, Authority. The Place of the Scribe in Greek Polytheistic Practice (6th - 4th c. BCE), Dominique Jaillard Part II Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism 4. The Dissemination of Written Texts, Philip R. Davies 5. Genesis: A Composition for Construing a Homeland of the Imagination for Elite Scribal Circles or for Educating the Illiterate? Diana V. Edelman 6. The 'Prophets' as Scriptural Collection and Scriptural Prophecy during the Second Temple Period, Christophe Nihan 7. From Prophet to Scribe: Jeremiah, Huldah and the Invention of the Book, Thomas Romer 8. Instituting through Writing : The letters of Mordecai in Esther 9:20 - 28, Jean-Daniel Macchi 9. The Scribe and his Class: Ben Sira on Rich and Poor, Walter J. Houston Part III Early Judaism and Early Christianity 10. Some Scribal Features of the Thematic Commentaries from Qumran, George J. Brooke 11. Efficacious Writing. The Inscription of the Rosette on the High Priest's Forehead and the Egyptian Reception of Exodus 28, Charlotte Touati 12. The Prose Writer and the Cultures of Author and Scribes: The Examples of Galen and the Anonymous Author of Luke-Acts, Claire Clivaz 13. Peter and His Secretary in Pseudo-Clement, F. Amsler 14. On the Danger of Writing According to Origen, Eric Junod

About the Author

Philip R. Davies is Emeritus Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield.

Thomas Römer is Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is also Professor of Biblical Studies at the College de France, Paris.