History · 17 · Moses and Joshua

Displaced Levites

The Levites had cultic privileges in the North. After 722 BCE, many were disenfranchised; some moved south, where there was little room for them.

Priestly politics shaped the texts.

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Their rivals, the Zadokites, had served in Jerusalem for ages.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 280

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