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Also, there is reason to suspect that originally the Levities were not a tribal group but a collective name for people of any ancestry who made their living from performing cultic services (see Judges 17... I don't see how this adversely affects Dr. Friedman's hypothesis. If anything, it strengthen...

Placing the Priestly source only 400 years after the Exodus is getting to be anachronistic in this day and age. I need to add, too, that Friedman dates his Levites-only Exodus later than the conventional time. The common assumption is that since the Merneptah Stele (dated to the 13th century BCE) r...

An issue with John's post was that a source wasn't given. It's probably this - If you read my last sentence, you'll see the reason for this "issue": I was not allowed to post URLS, but I offered the option to PM me for my sources. The source you came across contains some of the same infor...

Anat, I find persuasive the thesis of Richard Elliott Friedman et al. that the Exodus from Egypt involved only the Levites, and that when they came to Canaan and joined the resident Canaanites/Israelites, eventually the Exodus story became all of Israel's "history." Friedman, piggybacking ...