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  • From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Literature and literacy contemporary to the Torah.
  • Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 09:57:46 -0500

Dear Peter,

Apologies. I meant "literacy" not "literary."

HH: Since it is standard to hear, as Yigal said, that literary was low in ancient times, Kenneth Kitchen surprised me, in his recent book _On the Reliability of the Old Testament_, when he claimed that archeological finds suggest that even in pre-exilic times there may have been some functional literary widely spread through the population.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard




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