Beschreibung:
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?' This title provides the book-length treatment of the literate status of the Historical Jesus.
Chapter One: Illiterate Jesuses and Literate Jesuses; Chapter Two: Jesus' Literacy in Early Christian Tradition; Chapter Three: 'Knowing Letters' in Roman Palestine Chapter Four: Criteria of Authenticity and Jesus as a Jewish Teacher; Chapter Five: The Literacy of Jesus.