[PDF.11eg] Jewish Literacy in Roman Palestine (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism)

Jewish Literacy in Roman Palestine (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism)

[PDF.zi77] Jewish Literacy in Roman Palestine (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism)

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 | #3354147 in Books |  Coronet Books Inc. |  2001-12-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.75 x5.75 x1.00l,1.90 | File type: PDF | 557 pages

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||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Covers everything you want to know about literacy in Roman Palestine|By Jeri|Bart Ehrman interested me in this book when he claimed Hezser posited a literacy rate in Roman Palestine at 3%, a figure that seemed astoundingly low.

Ehrman was wrong. Hezser mentioned Bar Ilan's speculation about a 3% literacy rate, but Hezser herself never gives any estimate, other than|About the Author|Catherine Hezser, Born 1960; 1986 Dr. theol. at the University of Heidelberg; 1992 Ph.D. at the Jewish Theological Seminary New York; 1997 Habilitation at the Free University Berlin; Professor of Jewish Studies at the School of Oriental and Afri

Since Judaism has always been seen as the quintessential 'religion of the book', a high literacy rate amongst ancient Jews has usually been taken for granted. Catherine Hezser presents the first critical analysis of the various aspects of ancient Jewish literacy on the basis of all of the literary, epigraphic, and papyrological material published so far. Thereby she takes into consideration the analogies in Graeco-Roman culture and models and theories developed in the so...

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