Mastnjak has produced a remarkable study that offers an elegant and convincing solution to the problem of the earliest material forms of biblical literature. His bold and convincing arguments combine recent discoveries about ancient technologies of writing with careful textual analysis and will change how scholars imagine the literary form of the earliest manuscripts of biblical texts."
-Brennan W. Breed, Associate Professor of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary
Nathan Mastnjak is Professor of Sacred Scripture at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, Louisiana and author of Deuteronomy and the Emergence of Textual Authority in Jeremiah.