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Jesus’ Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee is unavailable, but you can change that!

Chris Keith critically engages the question “could Jesus read or write?” Building on the significant scholarly progression of the last 10 to 15 years, Keith argues that Jesus was able to simultaneously convince his contemporaries both that he was literate and that he was illiterate.

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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