to Harris and the literate landscape of Jesus generally. Worth noting briefly, however, is that Hezser’s detailed assessment of the Jewish literate scene has furthered Harris’s research by suggesting that, if anything, illiteracy was even more common in Roman Palestine.16 Similarly, and while there are detractors,17 the most recent thorough studies of Jewish scribes, orality, textuality, and education have also affirmed Harris.18 In other words, the common anthropological description of Judaism in
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