How Literate and Educated were Palestinian Jews in the Time of Jesus? It is unlikely that many first-century CE Palestinian Jews, especially peasants, during Jesus of Nazareth’s (c. 6–4 BCE—c. 30 CE) time, were literate, beyond perhaps being able to write their names, numbers, receipts, and contracts for common transactions. Most scholars, therefore, accept the study of ancient literacy provided by William Harris (1989) that around 90% […] https://jamesbishopblog.com/20....24/04/23/how-literat
