Hello and welcome again to Cathayancers Focus. I'm Cy Kellett, your host and I really have been enjoying doing these history podcasts with Jimmy Aiken, so we get an opportunity to do another one today.

Jimmy Aiken is senior apologist here at Cathay Gansers.

The author of many books,

including two brand new 20 Answers books,

one on Protestantism and one on the New Testament.

But you can find all of Jimmy's books

on our website at shop.cathic.com.

He's also the podcaster behind Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world

and a man to whom apparently the ancient world is endlessly fascinating. Oh yeah. You haven't got tired of it yet

have you? I want to learn lots more. So, like where am I going to find the time to read all the

stuff I want about it? Today I want to talk to you about writing in the ancient world because I do not know if you know this, but most of the New Testament, perhaps all of it is in writing.

Yes, all of the New Testament is in writing. Oh, it's all in writing. Okay, there's no pictures. Not in the original edition, right? So actually

knowing something about ancient writing is very... Most of it is letters in fact that... Oh yeah that's it. Yeah. Okay, so most of the books individually. Yeah, those would be letters. Yeah a gospel is a different thing. Right all but five books are letters. Oh yeah, the apocalypse right or no, that's a letter too. Oh it is yeah. It's a letter

It's a letter sent to seven churches. Oh Yeah, okay, so the four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, right, or those are not letters.

Right. And we'll talk about them and... You could kind of argue about is First John technically a letter or not,

but yeah. Also you could kind of argue about Hebrews but but five certainly are not

letters and the others either are clearly or are arguably letters so let's talk about letters in the ancient world then.

If you're going to have letters, you've got to have somebody deliver them.

Was there a post office?

No, there was not.

Okay, so how are these letters getting where they're going?

Well, it depends on who you were.

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