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 /