1. 'Not the subjects of a despot': Stoics 'Things Handed Down to Us': Re-presented Texts 'See How Well I Read': Texts in Use Musonius Epictetus Seneca Cornutus
2. 'Salvation Through Each Other': Epicureans A few Books Between Friends: The Collection and Distribution of Written Texts Snakes in the garden: Pseudepigraphy and textual Criticism Veritas, Brevitas: Epitomes Most 'Scruciating Idle: The Use (and Non-Use) of books The Rhetoric of Stone: The inscription of Diogenes of Oenoanda
3. A Library Lost and Found: Peripatetics Aristotle Redux: Andronicus Jots and Tittles: Pseudepigraphy, textual Criticism, and Corpus Organization Commentaries Simple and Complex Pseudo-Aristotelians at word: Epitomes and Paraphrases It was Discussed: texts in Use
4. Books Beneath a Plane Tree: Platonists Arranging according to Wisdom: Strategies for Reading Readers By Themselves: Commentary Cliff Notes Meets Timaeus : Epitomes and Handbooks 'For Three Days': Texts in Use
5. Jewish and Christian Groups Part 1 Laws Transcendent and Dazzling: Philo of Alexandria 'A Continuous Flood of Instruction': Philo the Teacher Part2: Books Among the Sons of Light: Qumran The Community 'The Interpretation Concerns...': Pesher Commentary Targum: Translating Scripture Texts: 'At Home and Away': Abbreviations and Anthologies 'How Lovely are Her Eyes': Re-Presented Bible 'All Night Long': Study in Contexts at Qumran Why So Much Writing at Qumran? Part3. Texts and Text-Brokers: Judaism in Palestine Of Young Girls and Virgins: Translating the Bible (Greek) 'His Eyes Were Not Red': Translating the Bible (Aramaic) 'Dew From the Ice of Paradise': Re-presented Bible 'Find, Open, Read, Observe': Texts in Use Textual Experts: Scribes Part4. 'Unless Someone Guides Me': Christian Groups The Demands of Performance and the Form of Texts 'As When Present, So When Absent:' Paul as Teacher and Text-Broker 'Not as Teacher': The Epistle of Barnabas as Anthology and Commentary Christians and the Codex Conclusions General Conclusions Teachers and texts: A Model Appendix 1: What Did Thaumasius Want?