>> “allowed” is not necessary in this context and you know it. In the first through about the 16th centuries, books were neither common nor necessary for the average person. <<
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Garbage!
Yeshua’s followers went to the synogogue every sabbath to read, or hear read the scriptures that were read in that manner for 1500 years or more.
Read Acts 15:19-21 if you are unfamiliar with this fact.
get serious...where would the average person at that time learn to read and from whom and with what. I said in an earlier post that people in the government and higher ups in the Jewish religion could read. When you went to a synagogue you listened to a reader...
in public lives there were scribes who, indeed, could read and write, and if you needed their services, you paid for them.