Hebrews were black... hmm

[nockwasright]

SemiticWarrior said:

god

I think your religion does not allow you to write this word.

SemiticWarrior said:

you're bullshiting we all know that all this crap was invented by christian negroes who're trying to prove "jesus"'s black.i know that you smart ass arab are trying to talk us

It allows instead the use of CAPS.

[SensoUnico]

Imho all that Hebrew stuff is pure legend. Abraham was probably the eponymous ancestor of many of the ancient peoples in the Middle East. What I understand is the Israelites were just another group of Canaanites with their own god that differed from their neighbors but otherwise they were exactly the same people as those who chose Baal or Baalat or worshiped wooden forms of their gods. So whether the Hebrews were black or blue really is not important. Obviously I do not think much of Shem, Ham or Lot fathering his daughters children or Abraham being married to his sister Sarah or any of the others. I do like the names though like Abimelech.

[KLI]

Hey Senso, do you think Jesus was a mythological character too?

[SensoUnico]

I was raised a Christian. I accept the actuality of Yeshuah bar Yusef but his divinity is another matter.

[mike2]

It's perfectly understandable to not accept the Old Testament biblical figures as literal all the time. But they are useful eponyms for migrating nations. They also give us a glimpse of how the Hebrew mind comprehended race and ancestry. For instance, a lot of people think Abraham was the ONLY ancestor of Hebrews and Arabs. That's ridiculous. The Bible lists tons of other eponyms that could have contributed. For instance, Ishmael is just the name of one of the Arab tribes. It is not the only one. People forget about Joktan and so on. And Jacob's sons didn't found the Twelve Tribes of Israel by themselves. They would have had to have had genetic help from the indigenous Canaanites. So you have to keep a watchful eye when studying the Table of Nations.

[SensoUnico]

To be frank, the twelve tribes thing is just a story with no reality. The O.T is a great read, floods, towers, divided seas, manna...it has it all. The golden calf is interesting as it gives an approximate date to that story to the time when Apis was venerated in Egypt.