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some kind of Jewish guy

Moses and those with him were Israelites, not Jews.

[the_doc]

I once corrected a Jewish girl on this very point. She had been joking that Charlton Heston made a lousy Moses because he doesn't look Jewish. I pointed out that Moses was a Levite, not a member of Judah-Benjamin.

Being trained in Judaism, she immediately admitted that I was correct.

(Interestingly, the partitioning of the Old Testament kingdom of Israel into Israel and Judah after the death of Solomon actually moved the identifier "Israel" away from Judah. Israel became [so to speak] the group which would later be the Diaspora!

Alas, I never got a chance to follow up with the Jewish girl about the eschatological implications of this.)