Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

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