>>48909
I had another thought, and I watched again. This bloke also has that Shatner-esque pauses what Paul Harrell has. Kinda. This isn't the other thought, but this:
In the ancient civilizations the temple was the center of the economy, in fact in Hungarian we call it temple economy because of this (and also palace economy, how the English calls it too). The main settlement had the temple with the scribes who doubled as priests, or the priests who doubled as scribes. They did the administration of the state, they were the ruling class basically. The surrounding lands were dotted with smaller settlements with specialized functions. Fishing villages, orchards, quarries, farms, mines... they produced food, pottery, building materials, tools, weapons, etc. and the products were sent to the central temple where they made an inventory and decided about the use of the stock they amassed. Some sent back to the villages for consumption, the others they used in communal building projects and such, and ofc the priesthood lived lavishly from what they kept.
And this Jewish myth about the treasures of the temple, seem to reflect this type of economic organization. Besides the rabbis and their tribe had an exceptional place in Jewish society.