On Mon, 8 Apr 2013 10:03:59 -0700, K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In the antebellum South, special laws were passed making it illegal for
> slaves to be taught to read and write, because literate slaves were more
> difficult to deal with. But even those laws didn't stop it. So why not
> slaves in Egypt being literate?
I agree. And unlike the African slaves in early America, the Israelite
slaves may very well have had a tradition of writing using the quite
simple alphabet, and with a cohesive society, a tradition of literacy
could well have been continued.
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