Genesis is the product of a learned priest who had access to sources that recall a time about 1200 years before the material was probably scribed. He used the royal genealogical archives to make a connection between the origins stories of Genesis 1-4:16 and the earliest known rulers among Abraham's African ancestors in Genesis 4-5.
The traditional view is that Moses is responsible for the first five books of the Old Testament. His family was a priestly family and it was through the Horite priestly families and their exclusive intermarriage that the material was preserved.
How do we know that Moses was a Horite? His father, Amram, married a descendant of Seir the Horite. Ishar was Amram's patrilineal cousin or niece. This means that Ishar and Amram had a common Horite ancestor (probably Seir).
Moses' Horite Ancestry
Assuming that Amram followed the marriage pattern of his Horite ruler-priest ancestors, Moses' mother was Amram's half-sister. They had the same father, but different mothers (as did Abraham and Sarah). As blood line was traced through the mothers and the priestly lines intermarried exclusively, it is highly probable that Moses, Aaron and Miriam were of Horite blood.
Related reading: Who Were the Horites?; Two Named Esau; Who was Oholibamah?; Abraham and Moses: Different Origins of Israel?
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