>>21385692Exodus was a Levite migration:
>Tabernacle designed like Egyptian temple>it was the Levites and Erev Rav who built the Golden Calf, which was most worshiped in Israel/Northern Kingdom>Levites not mentioned in the Song of Deborah, which lists the rest of the tribes and their respective territorial claims.>Levites roughly translates to “appendage”, “add on”, “coiled” or “joined”, is the same as that of Leviathan (“coiled serpent”)>Aaron is the founder of Levite priests>Moses is an Egyptian name, as are most of the Levite names listed in the Bible>Levite writer of the Bible hammers in the fact that’s Jews should be kind to strangersMoses and his followers (the Levites) came from Egypt, Exodus was originally their story, only much later did it become the founding myth for all Israelites. Over time Moses became a national figure among the Northern Israelites but not so much among the southern Judahites until following the Assyrian exile when refugees fleeing from the north brought legends about him to the south (along with others like Aaron, Miriam, and Joshua), indicated by lack of reference to him in our earliest Judahite literature from this period as in Proto-Isaiah.
An emerging group of families known as Zadokites had risen to prominence as the priestly caste in Judah, though it wasn't until the prophet Ezekiel that specificall, associated with the cultic worship of Yahweh in the Jerusalem Temple who had risen to a degree of prominence under the historical Judahite King David and his son Solomon, were elevated above the Levites while they were demoted to mere servants for their perceived sins by the prophet (Ezekiel 48:11).
