Note: Aus dem Vorwort: "Die Beiträge dieses Bandes gehen auf die 4. Projektgruppentagung der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft für Theologie zu "Religionsgemeinschaft und Identität. Prozesse jüdischer und christlicher Identitätsbildung im Rahmen der Antike" zurück. Die Tagung, die von 9. bis 11. März 2015 auf der Ebernburg (Bad Münster am Stein) stattfand, widmete sich dem Thema "Identität und Schrift"."

Note: I. Introduction to scribes, sages, and seers: Sages, scribes, and seers in Israel and the ancient near east: an introduction / , II. Scribes, sages, and seers in ancient Egypt: Knowledge and knowledgeable men in ancient Egypt: queries and arguments about an unsettled issue / , III. Scribes, sages, and seers in ancient Mesopotamia: Scribes and wisdom in ancient mesopotamia / , Tales of two sages: towards an image of the " wise man" in Akkadian writings / , IV. Scribes, sages, and seers in Ugarit and Syria: Scribes, sages, and seers in Ugarit / , The Aramaic tradition: Ahikar / , V. Scribes, sages, and seers in first temple Israel: Scribes, sages, and seers in the first temple / , VI. Scribes, sages, and seers in second temple Judah: the authors of Job and their historical and social setting / , Wisdom as a hermeneutical key to the book of Psalms / , Ezra - priest and scribe / , The social world of Ecclesiastes / , The sociological significance of the scribe as the teacher of Wisdom in Ben Sira / , VII. Scribes, sages, and seers in the Greek and Roman empires: The sage behind the Wisdom of Solomon / , Seers as mantic sages in Jewish apocalyptic (Daniel and Enoch) / , Sages and scribes in the Qumran literature / , VIII. Scribes, sages, and seers and the transition to rabbinic Judaism: Sages, scribes, and seers in rabbinic Judaism /