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This comprehensive exploration of language and literacy in the multi-lingual environment of Roman Palestine (c. 63 B.C.E. to 136 C.E.) is based on Michael Wise's extensive study of 145 Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Nabataean contracts and letters preserved among the Bar Kokhba texts, a valuable cache of ancient Middle Eastern artifacts. His investigation of Judean documentary and epistolary culture derives for the first time numerical data concerning literacy rates, language choices, and writing fluency during the two-century span between Pompey's conquest and Hadrian's rule. He explores questions of who could read in these ancient times of Jesus and Hillel, what they read, and how language worked in this complex multi-tongued milieu. Included also is an analysis of the ways these documents were written and the interplay among authors, secretaries, and scribes. Additional analysis provides readers with a detailed picture of the people, families, and lives behind the texts.

Language and culture --- Jews --- Literacy --- 933.51 --- Illiteracy --- Education --- General education --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Intellectual life. --- History. --- Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: Romeinse tijd II--(70-325) --- Bar Kokhba, --- Bar-Cocab, --- Bar-Cochab, --- Bar Cocheba, --- Bar-Kochba, --- Bar Kocheba, Simon, --- Bar Kokba, --- Bar-Kokhva, --- Bar-Kosiba, --- Bar-Kozba, --- Bar-Koziba, --- Barcochebas, --- Cocab, Bar-, --- Cochab, Bar-, --- Cocheba, Bar, --- Kochba, Bar-, --- Kocheba, Simon bar, --- Kokba, Bar, --- Kokhba, Bar, --- Kokhba, Simeon bar, --- Kokhva, Bar-, --- Kosiba, Bar-, --- Kosiba, Simeon bar, --- Kozba, Bar-, --- Koziba, Simeon bar, --- Shimʻon bar Kokhva, --- Simeon bar Kokhba, --- Simeon bar Kosiba, --- Simeon bar Koziba, --- Simon bar Kocheba, --- שמעון בן כוסבא --- בר כוכבא, --- בר כוכבה --- בר־כוכבא --- בר־כוכבא, --- Judaea, Wilderness of --- Barrīyat al Yahūdīyah --- Jeshimmon --- Judaea, Wilderness of (Israel and Jordan) --- Judea, Wilderness of --- Judean Desert --- Midbar Yehuda --- Midbar Yehudah --- Wilderness of Judaea --- Wilderness of Judah --- Wilderness of Judea --- Yeshimon --- Antiquities. --- 933.51 Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: Romeinse tijd II--(70-325) --- Intellectual life --- History --- Barrīyat al Quds --- Jeshimon --- Judah, Wilderness of --- Quds, Barrīyat al --- Yahūdīya, Barrīyat al --- Yehuda Desert --- Yehudah Desert --- RELIGION / Bible / General --- Langage et culture --- Language and culture. --- Lesekultur. --- Literacy. --- Sprachgebrauch. --- Bar Kochba --- Gesamtverband Jüdischer Hochschüler Judäa. --- Middle East