answersLogoWhite

0

A:John Dominic Crossan (The Birth of Christianity) cites research by William Harris, who says that, in Roman times, less than 3 per cent of people in the Palestinian provinces could read. It can be assumed that few women could read, even in the highest strata of society. For Crossan, Jesus was illiterate until the opposite is proven, and it is not proven but simply presumed by Luke when he has Jesus read from the prophet Isaiah in the synagogue at Nazareth in 4:16-20.
User Avatar

Wiki User

12y ago

What else can I help you with?

Related Questions

Could Jesus read and write during his time on Earth"?

Yes, it is believed that Jesus could read and write during his time on Earth, as he is described in the Bible as teaching in synagogues and writing in the sand.


In the time of Jesus how did one look up a specific scripture?

At jesus time scripture were read from schrolls.


Did women belly dance during the time of JESUS?

No


What are common belifes of the scribes of Jesus's time?

Jesus was not like the Jesus that they had read in the prophets. The believed that law over mercy.


What housing was in palestine in Jesus time?

The houses were small ones, with thatched hay and baked bricks.


What time period did Mary Magdalene live when Jesus was alive?

She traveled with Jesus and the disciples and other women as Jesus went about preaching in Judea and Samaritan areas so she lived at the same time as Jesus.


How did Jesus get out of the cave?

In Matthew's Gospel, the women came to the tomb and watched as an angel moved the stone that blocked the entrance to the cave. The angel told them that Jesus was already gone, but did not say how he left the tomb. The other gospels say that the stone was already moved when the women arrived, so Jesus could have walked out at any time after his resurrection.


What did women do in Palestine in the time of Jesus?

Guide the house. (1 Timothy 5.14)


What women could not do?

Throughout the course of history, there were many things that it was believed that women could not do. However, it has been proven time and time again tht women could do them all.


Why were women marginalized back in Jesus' time?

No, women were held in high esteem by most households. It was only those in power who used women a chattels.


Did the disciples of Jesus read and write?

Most of them could - several had professions in which they certainly would have needed literacy skills : Matthew was a tax collector, for example. It is also erroneous to imagine that even fishermen were not literate - all Jewish boys of the day received an education from the religious leaders. Peter may have used a scribe, however, his preaching abilities are not those of an uneducated man. Jewish society at the time was not primitive, as some have imagined.


Why was the body of Jesus not anointed at the time of the burial?

The time of Jesus' death meant that the body had to be quickly buried before the Sabbath began at sunset. No work could be done on the Jewish Sabbath. The women returned before dawn after the end of the Sabbath intending to anoint the body of Jesus which they could not complete after He died.