“How Many Books in a Preexilic Israelite Library?”

Some of the more sophisticated critics of the Book of Mormon have occasionally argued that literacy was virtually unknown among pre-exilic Israelites — which, if true, would seem to compromise both the claims to historicity of the early books of the Bible and of the Book of Mormon.  (After all, Lehi and Nephi and their successors are, obviously, highly literate.)

John Gee has been taking aim at that argument, off and on, for a number of years now.  Here, I assume, despite its understated and indirect character, is the latest installment of his comments on the claim:

http://fornspollfira.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/how-many-books-in-preexilic-israelite.html

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