Big Ideas · 14 · Hoshayahu
Memorizing messages to prevent tampering
Hoshayahu says he can repeat letters completely. Reading and remembering meant no third party could alter the messages.
Literacy as security.
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His letter offers a telling glimpse of how education worked in the monarchy that was destroyed months later.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 222–223
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