Here is the latest update for the blog. Indeed, the matter of the literacy of the Jews in the 1st century is of consequence when the charge is that the they were illiterate, and by extension of the that presupposition, the apostles were as well, putting the authorship of the New Testament into question. If the issue has actually been misrepresented based on a narrow margin of data, then it behooves Christians to rebut the charge with a well-orchestrated apologia. With this thought in mind, here is the article.