The Babylonian episode was decisive in its consequences, both for the petty tribe of Judah at the time and for the Western world today. During this period the Levites achieved things which were permanently to affect the life of peoples. They added four Books to Deuteronomy and thus set up a Law of racio-religious intolerance which, if it could be enforced, would for all time cut off the Judahites from mankind. By
