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[QUOTE]Originally posted by osirion: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by ausar: [qb] [QUOTE]Huh??? The Biblical verse I gave you is directly from the King James Bible. Number 12:1 And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman[/QUOTE]The Hebrew word for black is Cushi and when the Tanakh was translated into Greek the term that was used was aethiopies[burnt faced ones in Greek]. Many people assume that Ziporah of the Old Testament was a African Cushite when infact she was actually a Midianite. Midianites were eastern Cushites. Also in the land of the Old Testament there were Cushites both in Western Asia and south of Egypt. [/qb][/QUOTE]This is a matter for a different thread. The Bible is clear: Moses married an Ethiopian woman. The Bible clearly notes that her father is a Midianite so why refer to her as an Ethiopian when we already know where her father is from? This only makes any sense to refer to her as an Ethiopian rather than a Midianite if we consider that her [b]Mother was an Ethiopian[/b]. Besides the Midianites are Semitic people that according to the Bible are people who are of mixed ancestry (Hamitic and Semitic). To the Egyptians, Ethiopians ARE Nubians. Ethiopia in the Bible is essentially Sudan and not Ethiopia of modern times. These people were normally referred to as Nubians. There really isn't a Nubian people but a diverse group of people that lived below the 4th cataract. Also, the Bible is clear on Ethiopia being a Nation and not a description of people. The Bible clearly refers to Takahara as an Ethiopian King (the Pharoah of the 25 dynasty)? Did that mean he was a King with a Black face or was he a King of what is considered the Ethiopian state (which is actually Nubia)? There are plenty of references in the Bible to Ethiopia as a location. I think it is very questionable to apply Greek concepts to Hebrew oral tradition and I certainly would not use modern translations which have modern political concepts encoded. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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