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97+ % of the people at that time were illiterate.... Nobody knows that for sure because nobody was there to see it. It's pure speculation on the part of those making the claim.

there were VERY FEW books or documents to be had by the general public...there was really no need to learn to read because there was nothing to read. As education advanced in the years following Christs establishment of the Catholic church, monastaries were founded throughout the world, and through them, education and thus literacy spread widely. The Catholic church is largely responsible for the spread of knowledge and literacy from the time of Christ to the present.

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Barnabas

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Josephus

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Marcus Antistius Labeo

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Rufus of Ephesus

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“there were VERY FEW books or documents to be had by the general public...there was really no need to learn to read because there was nothing to read.”

I just posted a list of 27 1st century authors, whose works still survive. Sorry the links don’t work, but you could look them up on Wikipedia.

There was a language called Greek that was widespread at the time. It was only one of many languages that were written down at the time.

there were VERY FEW books or documents to be had by the general public...there was really no need to learn to read because there was nothing to read.

Sources? Anything to back up your claims?

As education advanced in the years following Christs establishment of the Catholic church, monastaries were founded throughout the world, and through them, education and thus literacy spread widely. The Catholic church is largely responsible for the spread of knowledge and literacy from the time of Christ to the present.

What a bunch of baloney.

there were VERY FEW books or documents to be had by the general public...there was really no need to learn to read because there was nothing to read.

Have you never heard of Homer or Plato? Written Greek literature started being developed at least four to five HUNDRED years B.C.!

The Hellenistic period or Hellenistic civilization is the period of ancient Greek history between the death of Macedonian king Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of ancient Rome. During this time, Greek cultural influence and power was at its zenith in Europe and Asia, experiencing prosperity and progress in the arts, exploration, literature, theatre, architecture, music, mathematics, philosophy and science. It is often considered a period of transition, sometimes even of decadence or degeneration, compared to the brilliance of the Greek Classical era (Classical Greece was a 200 year period in Greek culture lasting from the 5th through 4th centuries BC.). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_period