On 07/02/2020 16:43, harry wrote:
On Wednesday, 5 February 2020 13:14:48 UTC, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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

Jesus spoke Aramaic, a precursor of Arabic.
All the ordinary people did in that area at that time.

The Jewish holy scrolls are mainly written in Hebrew, with only a
smattering of Aramaic.


He allegedly wrote his own account, suppressed by the RC church in the Synods of Antioch.



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Colin Bignell