# Was Jesus Literate?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 5, 2011, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jesus-literate/570254 "2011-02-05T04:16:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-jesus-literate/570254/145 "2011-04-13T07:39:58Z")

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> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> “Jew school?”
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> Well if you learned anything about ancient Jewish history, you should have learned about the shifting of the center of Jewish worship from the Temple to the Tanakh in the diaspora.

Jew school is what I lovingly call my Jewish instruction. :o

I said your choice of the word “worship” was odd when you first used it:

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> I didn’t say the study of Tanakh didn’t have any importance, but it did not become the central focus of Jewish worship until after 70.

It would be better to say that the _synagogue_ became the focus for worship after the destruction of the Second Temple. No one worships the Tenach. If you want to talk about study focus, well, the Torah will always reign supreme. But the Tenach was written and kickin’ in 30 BCE.  
Anyway, since you think the Bible is a work of fiction, I’m going to go with “Dio Can’t Have A Strong Point in This Thread”. You know nothing of Jesus, his birth class, his life, etc. if the Bible is fiction, so WHY ARE YOU IN HERE?

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