And with legions of Romans around intending you grievous bodily harm, the ten might not have much time to stidy their Aleph Bets :-,)Not necessarily so.
1) Reading and writing are different skills. I can read Greek, I can't compose text in it.
2) If you define literacy as reading-and-writing, if you assume (generously) a literacy rate of 10% among adult males in C1/C2 Palestine, in a largely bilingual society there will not necessarily be an exact correlation between what is written and what is spoken. You can have ten rebels happily chatting together all day in Aramaic, but the one guy who can write is a bilingual who writes Greek. Just your bad luck...
Statistics: Posted by ebion — Mon Apr 01, 2024 9:18 pm