Jesus' Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee

by Chris Keith

Book Overview

Jesus' Literacy: Education and the Teacher from Galilee provides the first book-length treatment of the literate status of the Historical Jesus Despite many scholars' assumptions that Jesus was an illiterate peasant or, conversely, even a Pharisee none have critically engaged the evidence to ask 'Could Jesus read or write?' Some studies have attempted to provide a direct answer to the question using the limited primary evidence that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567533972
• ISBN13: 9780567533975
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"