no one ever said that they would not be able to get the old testament scriptures. Studying Scripture, not handing down fairy tales by word of mouth.
you do realize, I assume, is that is exactly where scripture came from..... if you feard the word of God, at that time, you did not record the words on your cell phone, you didn't even write it down (you couldn't write), but you remembered what had been said and PASSED IT ALONG, by word, to others in your family or circle of friends......that is tradition which became scripture....just think about it for a moment
That is wrong again, of course.
Word of mouth tradition did not BECOME Scripture.
God instructed Moses to write down what He told him, as He did with other writers of the OT.
Working on the assumption of widespread illiteracy is foolish. Those people had plenty of motivation to learn to read, so they could read the Law.
Additionally, the word of mouth tradition you claim became Scripture could be compared to what was written down and kept by the Jewish scribes.
There is plenty of evidence in Scripture itself that literacy was widespread. Just because the general populace probably didn't have enough money to own books, doesn't mean they didn't bother to learn to read and write.
Deuteronomy 6:1-9 “Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, 2 that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Deuteronomy 17:14-20 14 “When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, ‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’ 15 you may indeed set a king over you whom the Lord your God will choose. One from among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. 16 Only he must not acquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the Lord has said to you, ‘You shall never return that way again.’ 17 And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.
18 “And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests. 19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them, 20 that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.
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David was a shepherd boy when he was anointed king of Israel, and HE had an education. He wrote most of the psalms.