Ancient literacy

This is relevant to the liberal assumption that Jesus-tradition has to passed through decades of creative oral transmission before the Gospels were finally written:

http://larryhurtado.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/orality-textuality-and-the-material-evidence/

http://larryhurtado.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/more-material-evidence-on-reading-in-roman-antiquity/