A professionally written index is a map, guiding your readers to the treasures within your book.
Donna Jarjour, M.A.
With a master’s degree in Biblical Studies and Ph.D.-level work in the Bible and the languages and peoples of the ancient Near East, I can provide professional indexes for scholarly books, textbooks, and trade books in a variety of subjects.
The Bible and Theology
Whether you need a subject index, Scripture index, name index, or all of the above I can provide you with high quality, on-time indexes.
Ancient Near East
Is the Babylonian, Assyrian, Hittite, or Achaemenid Empire your topic? How about Egypt? I can help with that. Do city-states, the Amarna letters, or Phoenician trade routes get you excited? Me, too!
Foreign languages
Biblical Hebrew or Koine Greek? Akkadian or Ugaritic? How about Syriac or Aramaic? If your book contains any of those, I can not only index it, I can also include foreign in the index or write a separate index for them.
History
People from all time periods and locations share some things in common: economic pressures, families, the role of religion, gender issues, oppression, politics, and war – to name a few. I can write an index for your book that addresses all those things and more.
Trade books on a variety of topics.
Food science? Backcountry camping? Agriculture? Animal husbandry? Travel destinations? I can write indexes for books on wide-ranging topics.
Archaeology
Have three stones? Then you have a wall and you need an indexer who understands strata and ostraca to go along with it. I have the training and experience to index your book.
Why hire a professional indexer?
If you are an author, the answer is because you are tired. Very tired. You have worked long hours to get your monograph to the point where it is ready for an index. Let a fresh, highly-trained pair of eyes take over.
If you are a publisher, you need another professional you can depend on to produce a quality index on time, while following you style and instructions carefully.
A professional indexer looks at your book the way its readers will and does the analysis that allows those readers to easily find topics. Indexers also have specialized software that allows them to create beautiful indexes that will help sell your book.
If you would like a free estimate, use the contact form below to reach me.