Intro; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction: Historicizing the Master Archive; The Politics of the Master Archive; The Indexes of Subjectivity for the Archive; Critiquing the Master Archive as a Biblical Scholar; Trespassing on the Archive as Method; Bibliography; Chapter 2: Mastering Biblical History in the British Museum; Seeing Is Believing; Multivalent Inscriptions of Power; Scientific Exploration in the Public Domain; Historical Geography and the Bible; Layard's Nimrud in the British Museum; The Antiquarian Gaze of the British Museum

The British Museum's Machinery of AffiliationsConclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Books and Bodies in the British Museum Reading Room; Equating Skull Size with Superior Intellect; Panoptic Knowledge and Encyclopedic Learning; The Reading Room as a Panoptic Machine for Knowledge; Gendered Space in the Reading Room; Reproducing Empire in the Reading Room; The Printed Bible Collection and Clergy Readers; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 4: The Biblical Critic as Collector; Biblical Critic as Collector of Manuscripts; Westcott's Private Collecting Habits

Collecting Natural Objects with School BoysFeasting Eyes at the British Museum; The Confines of Textual Collecting; Textual Collecting at a State Museum; Shaping the Textual Critic Through Museum Access; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 5: Biblical Scholar as Imperial State Agent; Customizing Archaeological Science for the Department of Antiquities; Samuel Birch and the Department of Oriental Antiquities; Aligning Museum Artifacts with Biblical History; Touring Birch's Department as an Orientalist; Racial Seeing of Museum Artifacts; Samuel Rolles Driver as Scholar Agent of the British Museum

Linking Museum Artifacts to Biblical HistoryDriver's Racial Seeing of Museum Artifacts; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Epilogue: Contextualizing a Museum of the Bible; Bibliography; Index