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We had lunch today on the shore of Derwent Water, near Keswick. I think I first stayed in Keswick almost exactly forty years ago this month, in the company of a group of famous economists connected with the Mont Pelerin Society. \u00a0Although perhaps it was even further back, when I visited England for the first time in 1970. \u00a0Yes, I\u2019m that old. \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Some of the more sophisticated critics of the Book of Mormon have occasionally argued that literacy was virtually unknown among pre-exilic Israelites \u2014 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. \u00a0(After all, Lehi and Nephi and their successors are, obviously, highly literate.)<\/p>\n

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John Gee has been taking aim at that argument, off and on, for a number of years now. \u00a0Here, I assume, despite its understated and indirect character, is the latest installment of his comments on the claim:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/fornspollfira.blogspot.co.uk\/2016\/06\/how-many-books-in-preexilic-israelite.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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