(November 3, 2022 at 5:14 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(November 3, 2022 at 4:38 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: What do you base that on? Simply because Jesus didn’t write doesn’t necessarily mean that he couldn’t write.
While the overall literacy rate in Roman Judea/Palestine was probably around 3%, that of adult males Jews in cities and towns has been estimated to be as high as 20-25%.
Boru
I base it upon what is recorded in the Gospels, namely, Mark, Chapter 1.
How is it that Paul's letters survived?
Dawn
There's nothing in Mark Ch 1 that says or implies that Jesus was illiterate.
Boru
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