head of the canonizing process.2 Among the best known of these is Baruch who created some form of the Book of Jeremiah and his brother, Seraiah, who also served Jeremiah by writing (Jer. 36:4; 51:59–64).3 After them, we may focus especially on Ezra the scribe, the primal figure in creating Judaism. It is Ezra who formed Judaism into a community of text practice, whereby the lively, generative work of interpretation became definitional for Judaism, the Judaism of which Jesus is surely an heir. In