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Nov 8, 2017 · Illiterate people learned the Bible 600 years ago the same way illiterate people learn it today (approximately 16% of the world population is illiterate). But, "all literate people learn the Bible primarily by reading it" is not true.
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Jun 9, 2017 · Thus, illiterate medieval Christians learned the contents of the Bible orally, by hearing the Bible read, hearing its teachings and stories retold by priests, and seeing them depicted in art. Often, of course, this resulted in vague and garbled understandings.
Sep 9, 2020 · Researchers have analyzed 18 ancient texts dating back to around 600 BCE from the Tel Arad military post using state-of-the-art image processing, machine learning technologies, and the expertise...
Aug 30, 2019 · Here is the fact: the majority of early Christians were not literate. They depended on literate people to read the New and Old Testament. This remained true throughout the Middle Ages, and even up to the nineteenth century. The majority of believers until the last two centuries could not read themselves.
May 31, 2015 · Tradition says that the gospels now known as Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were actually written by the persons whose names the gospels now bear. Of these, Matthew is thought to have been a tax collector and therefore literate, Luke was a physician and therefore literate.
The first part of the book—titled, “The Cause of the Criticism”—seeks to answer one key question: “If most ancients lived out their uneducated lives quietly and almost unnoticed by their educated neighbors, why were the early Christians criticized for being uneducated?” (p. 3).
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May 28, 2012 · Despite the perception of contemporaries who still divided the educated world into two groups, illiterate laymen and literate clerics, laymen became more and more literate, and they developed different forms of literacy.
