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- From: George F Somsel <gfsomsel AT juno.com>
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- Subject: Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:18:12 -0500
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 07:02:52 -0600 "Mark D. Nanos" <nanosmd AT comcast.net> writes:
> on 1/19/05 6:31 AM, George F Somsel at gfsomsel AT juno.com wrote: > > > > While I would not suggest that the society of the time was > literate in > > the same sense that ours today would be considered to be (and even > less > > that of a generation or two previous to the current), let us not > suppose > > that the audience to which these writings were addressed were by > any > > means ignorant. To use an example outside of the Pauline corpus, > the > > Apocalypse abounds in references which are only understandable to > one who > > has a most intimate knowledge of the OT writings. If the hearers > > themselves were unable to ferret out the allusions, presumably > there was > > someone there who was thus capable who would in turn explain it to > the > > audience generally. > > George, > I was not discussing ignorance, and it should be pretty clear that I > am > discussing the reception of letters that expect much from the > recipients. In > a largely oral culture folks could memorize circles around most of > us. What > I am trying to bring to bear is literacy. According to prevailing > wisdom, > literacy was limited for the most part to elites and retainers, and > guesses > range from 3% to 10% for the Roman Empire, with slightly higher in > some > Greek cities, and lower in rural settings. Recent work on Paul's > communities > suggests most if not all of the members were poor to relatively > poor, not > elites, maybe a few at retainer level. Hence, the low end of > literacy is > probable. There is quite a debate going on now about literacy levels > in > Judea and within Diaspora Jewish communities, but the numbers for > literacy > are generally still quite low (surprising to me to learn). It is an > open > question how the receptions of these letters worked, but the topic > of > literacy and orality as well as manuscript availability does bear on > the > topic at hand. Why was appeal to Scripture as authority made, where > and how > was Scripture accessed by the recipients, and who was presumed to > be > available to explain it, are just the kind of questions being > raised. > > Regards, > Mark > -- > Mark D. Nanos, Ph.D. > Rockhurst University > Co-Moderator > http://home.comcast.net/~nanosmd/ ____________________ In RE 1.3 we find
Presumably it would be ὁ ἀναγινώσκων
(hO ANAGINWSKWN) or the one who reads aloud (the
lector). george
gfsomsel ___________ |
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RE: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?
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- RE: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?, Tony Costa, 01/16/2005
- RE: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?, tiona, 01/16/2005
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Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?,
George F Somsel, 01/17/2005
- Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?, Harold R. Holmyard III, 01/17/2005
- Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?, George F Somsel, 01/17/2005
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Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?,
tiona, 01/18/2005
- Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?, Edgar Krentz, 01/18/2005
- Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?, nanosmd, 01/18/2005
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Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?,
George F Somsel, 01/19/2005
- Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?, Mark D. Nanos, 01/19/2005
- Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?, George F Somsel, 01/19/2005
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Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?,
George F Somsel, 01/20/2005
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Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?,
John Brand, 01/20/2005
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Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?,
Tim Gallant, 01/20/2005
- Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?, John Brand, 01/20/2005
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Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?,
Tony Buglass, 01/20/2005
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Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?,
John Brand, 01/20/2005
- [Corpus-Paul] Linguistics and Conceptual community, Edgar Krentz, 01/20/2005
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Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?,
Jeffrey B. Gibson, 01/20/2005
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Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?,
John Brand, 01/20/2005
- [Corpus-Paul] similarities, Jeffrey B. Gibson, 01/20/2005
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Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?,
John Brand, 01/20/2005
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Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?,
John Brand, 01/20/2005
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Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?,
Tim Gallant, 01/20/2005
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Re: [Corpus-Paul] Did Paul break the Law?,
John Brand, 01/20/2005
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