New Testament Notes

Literacy Rates

  • Roman Society 8-10% can read and write

  • Palestine 3%

  • Paul is not a writer

  • very few people knew how to read and write


Important Historical Markers

  • 1000 BCE: King David

  • 930-722 BCE: Two Kingdoms

  • Kind David is the king who the jews look back to, His son sucsceeds Him.

  • Kingdom of Isreal to the north, Jurusalem was in the southern Kindom.

  • 587 BCE

  • Identity Markers: Land, Monarchry, Temple, Torah

  • all they have left is the Torah, everything else was destroyed