When thinking about the Dead Sea Scrolls and ancient media, scribes play a central role, not only as the perceived faithful transmitters of a text, but also as taking part in the production, elaboration, transmission and circulation of texts-orally, aurally, and textually.1An important aspect in all of this, but one that is largely neglected,2 is the question of how texts were published in ancient Judaea.How exactly should we envisage the spread of texts beyond the
