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On Wednesday, 5 February 2020 21:33:31 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
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On 05/02/2020 14:34, Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , The Natural Philosopher
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On 05/02/2020 10:01, Tim Lamb wrote:
Point of curiosity.
Would the son of a carpenter and his fishermen disciples be able to
read and write at that time?
Also, what access would there have been to scrolls presumably
jealously guarded by religious authorities?

Jesus spent a lot of time in te temples and had been around the
block
a few times before the Teacxhings. I'd say he could read Hebrew all
right. Or like todays Muslims, had *memorised* the bible
Hmm. I was picking up on the reference to *read* up post and it just
tickled an active brain cell:-)
Wasn't Sanscrit the language of the time?

Not for Jews, no. Latin, Greek, (Aramaic) and Hebrew were the written
languages of the middle east. Sanskrit is India. Also Farsi from the
Persians. (Parsees)

"During the thousand years of its composition, almost the entire Old
Testament was written in Hebrew. But a few chapters in the prophecies
of
Ezra and Daniel and one verse in Jeremiah were written in a language
called Aramaic. This language became very popular in the ancient world
and
actually displaced many other languages. Aramaic even became the common
language spoken in Israel in Jesus time, and it was likely the
language
He spoke day by day. Some Aramaic words were even used by the Gospel
writers in the New Testament.

The New Testament, however, was written in Greek. This seems strange,
since you might think it would be either Hebrew or Aramaic. However,
Greek
was the language of scholarship during the years of the composition of
the
New Testament from 50 to 100 AD. The fact is that many Jews could not
even
read Hebrew anymore, and this disturbed the Jewish leaders a lot! So,
around 300 BC a translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew into Greek
was undertaken, and it was completed around 200 BC. Gradually this
Greek
translation of the Old Testament, called the Septuagint, was widely
accepted and was even used in many synagogues. It also became a
wonderful
missionary tool for the early Christians, for now the Greeks could read
Gods Word in their own tongue."

https://www.biblica.com/resources/bi...first-written/

OK. Memory glitch!

We know they started off in Bethlehem, which seems an unlikely centre
for
religious education,

The jews had religious education everywhere they were.

but little about his upbringing and teenage years.

Yeah, it would be interesting to know some
detail but presumably he never said much
about that to his crew so it never got recorded.

We dont even know what he got up to ****ing wise.

We don't even know what he looked like.

Except that he likely was rather swarthy.

And IIRC the new testiments and the bits saying what
Jesus did were written 50+ years after he died.

Rather longer than that, well past there being any
present at the time doing the reporting. Likely lots
of faulty memory of what he actually said and did.