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This Chapter Introduces The Concept Of Reading With The Scribes And Brings Readers Up To Speed On Recent Developments In Text-critical Methodology That Are Important For Understanding The Concept. In The Text-critical Evidence From The Late Second Temple Period, We Have Access To Scribes Who Were In An Excellent Position To Understand The Language And Literary Features Of Texts. To Be Sure, This Access Is Not Direct, And It Is Impossible To Reconstruct Their Exact Thought Processes. However, When We Look Carefully At The Manuscript Evidence, We Glimpse Some Of The Earliest Interactions With The Text, And The Processes Of Formation And Composition Of The Text. When We Focus Our Attention On The Places In The Text Where The Scribes Were At Work, And Explore The Elements Of The Text Involved In That Work, We Find Methodological Insights And Consider The Text In New Ways-- Provided By Publisher.