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by amc216 on January 18th, 2007

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In our Lord's time, who was the priestly class found among?

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  • by TShilo12 on May 12th, 2008

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    "In our Lord's time, who was the priestly class found among?"

    First, when asking questions about Judaism, using the epithet "our Lord" is not only off-putting, it is offensive. Jesus is not "our Lord" in Judaism.

    To answer the question I assume you were trying to ask (to wit: "In Jesus' time, who were the priests?"), the answer is the descendants of the sons of Aaron, Moses's brother. When it talks about "the priests and the Levites did [whatever]" (when it refers to them all as a group), it's actually gibberish, possibly indicative of an ignorance on the part of the writer that the priests (descendants of Aaron) _are_ Levites ("Levites" are descendants of Levi [one of Jacob/Israel's sons] an ancestor of Aaron's and Moses').

    To this day, the priests (kohanim) are still around, and they're still priests [although without the Temple they can't perform their duties as priests], some of them are even rabbis. (Some common surnames of priests are Cohen, Kohn, Kagan, Kahn, Katz, etc.) The Levites are around as a larger group still as well. (Some common Levites' surnames are Levy, Levi, Levine, etc.)

    There was no "priestly class" [neither then, nor now], there were, and are, "priestly families" from the "priestly clan", if you will.

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