[Cronos]

1. Teaching the Torah does not mean "reading" -- many ancient peoples retained their histories orally. Think of the Homeric epics or the Mahabharatha and Ramayana etc.

2. To write teh scripture on their doors and gates -- illiterate Jews in Europe got their rabbis to do things like this. It would have been the same in BC times.

Being literate, investing the time and effort to do so was not worth it for most people before the invention of the Gutenburg press and paper made from wood pulp

Before that books were just too expensive, too rare for most to have. Even the Pentateuch would be restricted to a few copies -- remember that it was "lost" during the period of Kings and found again during Josiah's time. What do you think the Israelites were doing during that time? It was oral

[Valpal1]

Yet somehow Jesus was literate while most in his station were not due to the lack of “value” it would have in the culture in which he lived.

Your belief is based on the assumption that ancient Jews were just like everyone else, when it’s rather obvious that they were not. Which is why they are still here and not in the dustbin of history with the Babylonians, Phoenecians, Sumerians, etc.