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In reply to the discussion: (Right Winger Evangelicals) brand of Christianity IS NOT the Truth of Christ [View all]Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Jesus is referred to as Rabbi in several of the gospels. It usually entails someone who has at least some formal education and could read religious tomes. It's debatable whether or not Jesus was literate and I suspect he was. Assuming he was, it's interesting to ponder how he would have received that education. He reportedly came from limited means and virtually the only other path to education would have been as a disciple of a Rabbi. Some believe he was a disciple of John the Baptist who was also called Rabbi and probably did have some type of formal education. If you want to ponder something else that's interesting, consider that JtB made his bones baptizing nude young boys in the Jordan river and pederasty was extremely common and well accepted in the day and was generally viewed as a cost of entry to that path of formal education. I'm not saying that was what was going on, but it seems quite possible if not likely. It's also possible Jesus would have had that same type of relationship with one or more of his own disciples. That's not the kind of thing you'll likely learn in Sunday school, but the history of the time and place speaks for itself.