Writing goes back to the cavemen: they wrote on stone and bone. The Bible does not go back that far; but what was it originally written on? What kinds of inks were used? How did the use of scrolls influence the actual contents of the texts? What about the modern book: how has its invention affected the Bible's transmission? This lecture will look at a rarely considered but fascinating aspect of the sacred Scriptures: how technologies for writing the Bible have affected the Bible itself.