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- 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.
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Jun 15, 2024 · The early Christians, both Jewish and Gentile, likely had varying levels of literacy. The apostle Paul, for instance, utilized personal letters to communicate with churches, demonstrating a reliance on written communication.
- In Early Christianity - Updated American Standard Version
Historians’ common consensus is that in the Roman Empire,...
- In Early Christianity - Updated American Standard Version
Most of our study Bibles tell us that many of the apostles and early Christians were not members of the educated elite classes, and are often assumed to be illiterate.
The first factor to consider is how prevalent literacy was in Jesus’ time. Full literacy means being able to read and write proficiently, but degrees of literacy vary; people who can read, for example, may not be able to write.
The last 200 years have seen considerable swings in the literary assessment of the earliest Christian literature, including as it does the texts which became the canonized Scriptures of the Church, but not just those. The pendulum has been affected partly by new discoveries, but changing perspectives have also played their part.
- Frances Young
- 2004
‘The Origins of Early Christian Literature turns a century of New Testament scholarship on its head. Setting the gospels in their proper literary context, Robyn Walsh calmly dismantles naive, romantic notions that are immersed in an anachronistic ‘oral tradition’ paradigm.
- Robyn Faith Walsh
- 2021
The Origins of Early Christian Literature. Conventional approaches to the Synoptic gospels argue that the gospel authors acted as literate spokespersons for their religious communities.
Oct 30, 2021 · Historians’ common consensus is that in the Roman Empire, the first three centuries of Christianity were 5-10 percent literate, and they were male. We are not trying to suggest that widespread means the 80-90 percent literacy but instead at least 40-50 percent, if not more.
