[verga]

Why Catholics fall for that meme I’ll probably never understand. Paul commended the Bereans because they “searched the scriptures daily”. What do Catholics think those scriptures were? Peter called the writings of Paul scripture. Do Catholics honestly think that those writings weren’t disseminated widely since they were considered to be equal to the Old Testament? Seriously, Catholics have fallen for a lie from the RCC that anyone who studies history knows.

Up until the 2nd century "books" as we know them did not exist. Writings were done on animal hides, or papyrus in the form of scrolls. Later individual sheets were gathered and this was called a "codex", but they were not everyday items. Even into the times of Elizabeth the first playwrights would put an actors part on a "scroll" this is where the term "Role" originated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_books

http://www.e-book.com.au/bookhistory.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book

[CynicalBear]

Yep, by jiminy you are correct there verga. Neanderthals the whole bunch of em. It’s amazing they could even understand what Jesus and the apostles were saying. They sure did luck out getting some of those buildings to stand as long as they did though. Josephus probably knew that one day after they invented books his writings would finaly get read by somebody. And those apostles writing to the churches must have done it just the one or two people who had somehow learned to read could read them for the Neanderthals in the pews.