Esther Brownsmith is Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton, USA.
Liv Ingeborg Lied is Director of MF CASR at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway
Marianne Bjelland Kartzow is Professor of New Testament Studies at the of University of Oslo, Norway

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction to Unruly Books - Esther Brownsmith, University of Dayton, Marianne Bjelland Kartzow, University of Oslo, Liv Ingeborg Lied, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society

Section 1: Unruliness in Early Jewish Texts
2. Gender and Imagined Authorship of Ancient Jewish Texts - Hanna Tervanotko, McMaster University
3. Imagined and Unruly: The Letter of Aristeas and the Septuagint - Benjamin Wright, Lehigh University
4. Why Didn't Biblical Books Have Titles? A Study in Ancient Hebrew Literary Values - Seth Sanders, University of California, Davis

Section 2: Unruliness in Early Christian Texts
5. The Letter to the Laodiceans: A "Ghost of a Pauline Epistle?" - Vemund Blomkvist, Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo
6. Unruly Scriptures in the Clementine Homilies- Ismo Dunderberg, University of Helsinki
7. Disciplinary Knowledge and Gospel Bibliography in Origen's Homily on Luke 1 - Jeremiah Coogan, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University

Section 3: Unruliness in Islamic Texts
8. Books Known Only by Reference in the Quran - Matthew P Monger, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society
9. Taming Unruliness: al-Qa?i ?Iya?'s al-Ghunya and the Nested List Structure - Nora Eggen, Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo

Section 4: Unruly Receptions
10. Hermetic Books Known Only by Title: Scrolls, Stelae, and the Egyptian Total Library - Christian Bull, University of Bergen
11. Books Known Only by Name in Booklists from the Slavia Orthodoxa - Slavomír Céplö, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
12. Books Known Only by Title in Book Lists: The Unruly Entries of the Gelasian Decree and Abdisho of Nisibis's Catalogue of the Books of the Church - Rebecca Solevåg, VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Liv Ingeborg Lied, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society
13. Gospel Thrillers: Unruly Knowledge in a Fictional Archive - Andrew Jacobs, Harvard Divinity School

List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index

This volume explores the idea of the unruly book, from books now known by their titles alone to books that subverted structures of power and gender. The contributors show how these books functioned as "sticky" objects, and they examine the story of what such books signified to the people who wrote, read, discussed, yearned for, or even prohibited them. The books examined are those of the first millennium of the Common Era, and the writings of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and related traditions. In particular, the contributors examine the bounty of books within this period that are hard to pin down, whether extant, lost, or imagined-books that challenge modern scholars to reconceptualize our notions of books (biblical or otherwise), religion, manuscript culture, and intellectual history. Through the critical analyses presented in this volume, the contributors negotiate the diverse stories told by unruly books and show that by listening to the stories that books tell, we learn more about the worlds that imagined and discussed them.