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Jesus Christ: Historical Materialism, Class Conflict, and the Jesus Movement

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The Importance of Education in the Gospels

The gospels are very limited in what they can tell us about Jesus' childhood. He was probably associated with a small village of Nazareth, where he would have been expected to run the household as the older as male and things like this. It's not entirely clear that he would have learned to read. There is a fairly convincing argument, I think, that he could have been illiterate. The breakdown of household and the creation of an alternative household is a theme we find independently in different source material.

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