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Obviously white were considered beautiful (at least concerning women) among some Jews about 2000 years ago, as one can read about in one of the scriptures from Wadi Qumran, the Genesis Apochryphon, where Sarah´s beauty is described
quote: The sentences being read in the film are from a composition entitled Genesis Apocryphon, column XX, lines 2 to 7, in which the biblical description of Sarah's beauty is expounded. According to the biblical narrative in the book of Genesis, when Abraham and Sarah approached Egypt, the patriarch said to his wife, "I know that you are a beautiful woman," (Gen. 12:11). However, as befits the reserved biblical style, the Torah does not elaborate on Sarah's beauty. Therefore, the ancient author, who wrote this scroll in the spirit of similar descriptions in the biblical Song of Songs and in Hellenistic literature, completed what was missing in the Torah and detailed the beauty of the matriarch:
1. ______
2. ... how irresistible and beautiful is the image of her face; how 3. lovely h[er] foreh[ead, and] soft the hair of her head! How graceful are her eyes, and how precious her nose; every feature
4. of her face is radiating beauty! How lovely is her breast, and how beautiful her white complexion! As for her arms, how beautiful they are! And her hands, how
5. perfect they are! How [desirable] all the appearance of her hands! How graceful are her palms, and how long and thin all the fingers of her hands! Her legs
6. are of such beauty, and her thighs so perfectly apportioned!
Here follows a short film about the life in the place of the Dead Sea scrolls about 2000 years ago.
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It seems to be a universal constant since women are in general lighter than men so clearly a long selection was done here :https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3317612/
As for testimonies, I have this one from the african poet Luxorius :
quote:The aesthetic prejudice appears with much clearness, at the end of the ancient period it is true, with Luxorius, an African poet exerting in the court of the Vandal kings, at the beginning of VIth century. He opposes, in one of his poems, to the pretty pontic girl, who symbolizes the Nordic woman, an ugly one (foeda) garamantian, symbolizing if not the Ethiopian woman, at least the southern type farthest from the Nordic type
Jehan Desanges, L'Afrique noire et le monde méditerranéen dans l'Antiquité (Éthiopiens et Gréco-Romains), p. 410
Here another one :
quote: On the other hand, let us consider the case of the anonymous author of the Moretum, highly praised by F. M. Snowden, who considers him, by the exactitude of his description of the black Scybale, as worthy to compete with modern anthropologists such as E. A. Hooton and M. J. Herskovits. But the American scholar does not seem to have wondered about the choice of the name Scybale which certainly comes from the Greek meaning reject, waste, having in Polybius the meaning of contemptuous rejection of insulting treatment, and scybala designating for the physician Theodore Priscian the excrement.
Jehan Desanges, L'Afrique noire et le monde méditerranéen dans l'Antiquité (Éthiopiens et Gréco-Romains), p. 410
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What's the purpose of this thread? You opened with a statement about how Jews found white skin attractive and just ended it there lol.
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quote:Originally posted by SlimJim: What's the purpose of this thread? You opened with a statement about how Jews found white skin attractive and just ended it there lol.
I think he wanted to troll the Black Hebrew Israelite crowd. And we do have some of those in this forum. They seem to be more active in the Kemet than Deshret subforum these days though.
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Her whiteness was obviously an ideal which in the Genesis Rabbah was contrasted against the "ugly and swarthy" Egyptians:
quote: Sarah's external appearance in the Genesis Apocryphon reflects the authors notion of ideal beauty: Her skin is white, her fingers are long and thin, and her face is radiant. Sarahs white complexion is also alluded to in Genesis Rabbah where it is contrasted with the "ugly and swarthy" Egyptians.
Tamar Kadari, "The Beauty of Sarah in Rabbinic Literature", Hebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings, Volume in honour of Alberdina Houtman, eds. Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman & Klaas Spronk, Leiden-Boston: Brill 2018, pp. 65-82.
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quote:Originally posted by Archeopteryx: Her whiteness was obviously an ideal which in the Genesis Rabbah was contrasted against the "ugly and swarthy" Egyptians:
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