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[QUOTE]Originally posted by BlessedbyHorus: [QB] [b]Part 3: Were the Ancient Jews black like other Southern Canaanites? [/b] I always held the idea of the Ancient Jews being black as nonsense due to the nonsense by radicals like the Black Hebrew Israelite's. But after doing some research around the web, I'm starting to really entertain that the early Jews were just migrating Egyptians/Ethiopians. I'm going to try and post sources that support this theory. In part 2 we already know about Africans migrating into the Levant since the Neolithic. And also how the people of Southern Canaan, (which Israel is apart of) were described. Again Southern Canaan was Egypt's oldest colony. Even during pre-dynastic times. A number of Israeli archaeologists claim ethnic Egyptians dominated some important Jewish territories which is interesting to me. Some people still believe the Jews were enslaved in Ancient Egypt, but we know from Zahi Hawass [URL=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/11/new-discovery-shows-slave_n_419326.html]article[/URL] that was not the case. But touching base on the known exodus hypothesis, Manetho and others wrote of a leprosy outbreak around 1400 BCE (Armana period) where high numbers of Egyptians and Ethiopians were forced to leave the country. I wouldn't doubt these same exiles going into Canaan and eventually taking over. Perhaps later they were seen as the Hebrew? Again Southern Canaan was Egypt's oldest [b]colony [/b]and the Hebrew retain certain customs that were once familiar to Egyptians and Ethiopians (for instance, circumcision). But getting back on track of the early Jews being migrating Egyptians/Ethiopians, lets look at what some Greek/Roman writers state: [QUOTE]One of the customs most zealously observed among the Aegyptians is this, that they rear every child that is born, and circumcise the males, and excise the females, as is also customary among the Judaeans, w[b]ho also are Aegyptian in origin, as I have already stated in my account of them[/b].[/QUOTE]Strabo [QUOTE][b]The majority of people say the Judaeans were those Ethiopians whom fear and hatred obliged [/b] to change their habitations, in the reign of king Cepheus.[/QUOTE]Tacitus -- The Histories Book V But more importantly Upper-Egyptians had a very long presence in one of the largest Hebrew cities such as Lachish, making up the majority of the population as late as the 6th century. [QUOTE]"The excavation uncovered a mass of human bones, which was estimated to form the remains of fifteen hundred individuals [...] Remains of 695 skulls were brought to London by the British expedition [...] [b]Curiously, the crania indicate a close resemblance to the population of Egypt at this time [...] 'the relationships found suggests that the population of the town in 700 B.C. was entirely, or almost entirely, of Egyptian origin...' They show further, that the population of Lakish was probably derived from Upper Egypt [/b][...] If so, this indeed is a conclusion of far-reaching implications."[/QUOTE](David Ussiskhin: "The Conquest of Lachish by Sennacherib"; Tel Aviv University, The Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv, 1982: p.56-57) Gezer and Megiddo showed similar affinities with Upper-Middle Egyptian-related populations. Judah and Egypt had strong ties during the Kush*te period. It is not a stretch to suggest they assisted Judah against the Assyrians because had close ties, going back to Neolithic times, when overpopulation along the upper Nile led to rather large scale migrations to the Levant. Also here's an interesting quote though I can not find the source, IIRC its by a Roman: [QUOTE]That Syria was once the domain of Cepheus, an Ethiopian king,Tacitus wrote[b] that the Romans believed that the Jews originated in Ethiopia but fled the persecutions of the King. Strabo, even earlier,stressed that people of Western Judea was Africiod[/b]: But although the inhibatance are mixed up thus,t[b]he most accredited reports in regards to the people of Jerusalem represents the ancestors of the present Judeans as they are called Egyptians[/b].[/QUOTE]Here is something that agree's with that Lachish find: [QUOTE][b]D. L. Risdon [/b]in BIOMETRIKA 1939 31:99-166 reports the Lachish cranial series has its closest resemblance to the 4th dynasty series from Deshasheh and Medum in Lower Egypt and the 18th dynasty samples from Thebes and Abydos in Upper Egypt.[b] Cranial samples from other Palestinian sites (Gezer, Megiddo) agree with the Lachish cranium. Thus we have a clear African "racial" continuum in the Hebrews and Egyptians. [/b] The phrase "black and beautiful" ( sh*hhora w*nawa ) [b]originates from a Hebrew document[/b], Song of Songs 1:5, where an Israelite woman from Shunem [b]exclaims her sun enhanced ebon beauty to some color and class struck dusky members of the royal household who kept themselves behind palace walls out of sunlight[/b]. For the Shulammite to have tanned black she must have already been very brown. In the midrash (Hebrew legendary lore) Shem teamed up with Hham in the war against Yapheth, progenitor of the northern people of pallour. The PIRQE DE RIBBI ELI`EZER 28a classes Shem with people of colour. [b]It says that Shem was especially blessed black and beautiful, Hham was blessed black like the raven, and Yapheth was blessed white all over. [/b][/QUOTE]Shem who is belived to be parent of the Jews, iirc. [QUOTE][b]Tacitus[/b], a younger contemporary of Josephus, lists common Roman opinions on Jewish origins. [b]He wrote that many were assured Judahites were descendents of Kush*tes [/b](The Histories V.2). Is this a view lurking within Amos 9:7?[/QUOTE]IMO this is why the Romans stated the Jews are from Ethiopia/Kush: [IMG]http://www.religionfacts.com/jesus/images/christ-and-apostles-catacomb-domitilla2.jpg[/IMG] And to elaborate more...Note the hair depicted on David (dreadlocks) is consistent with the depictions of Egyptians, Ethiopians and Berbers in Greco-Roman art: [IMG]http://24.media.tumblr.com/464945cc58af5169d1578fc104ac5c5f/tumblr_myt5d0MuGY1ssmm02o1_1280.png[/IMG] [i]Joseph being sold to Ishmaelites.[/i] [IMG]http://24.media.tumblr.com/ee7e84967316dd46baa0cd6840e9bd36/tumblr_myszmhEBdR1ssmm02o1_500.png[/IMG] [i]Peter weeping after denying Christ three times, and the cock crowing; a deep pit represented by large jar with a mir of clay.[/i] [IMG]http://25.media.tumblr.com/928936b04ba5ad1d4ffc7b5834ab79ec/tumblr_myt60uJWDK1ssmm02o1_500.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://25.media.tumblr.com/f145e39875a7afa77384b432707e57b3/tumblr_myt60uJWDK1ssmm02o2_1280.png[/IMG] [i]David and Goliath, each accompanied by a personification: David by Might and Goliath by Pride.[/i] [IMG]http://24.media.tumblr.com/7d292bb52fffabd2089984410a5f9256/tumblr_myt015vcvt1ssmm02o1_1280.png[/IMG] [i]The capture of David by Philistines in Gath.[/i] [IMG]https://31.media.tumblr.com/a272b0707297d7d070f4729d7f5abdc3/tumblr_inline_myt07zYrrA1rpr1t4.png[/IMG] [i]David in the cave of Adullam.[/i] [IMG]http://25.media.tumblr.com/22bf4ef885d6097eaf5ee19b828fc3fe/tumblr_mysz6xlOt71ssmm02o1_500.png[/IMG] [i]David being crowned king of Israel.[/i] Again this is just my personal theory that the early Jews were a subset of Egyptians/Ethiopians. But I think damn good one. The origins of the early Jews is really anyone's guess. But imo the Jews being black is more possible than them being white. [b]Conclusion:[/b] Again all of this was just speculation on my part. Though the argument for Ancient Canaanites/Jews being black is not Afrocentric at all, but a very, very high possibility. Since the Levant was a crossroad and a hopscotch away from Northeast Africa. The race on the Jews/Canaanites is anyone's argument really. The root of my argument is based off Canaan being a son of Ham which is the black race in the bible. Though I still hold on that the Levant is an extension of Africa and don't think it is speculation. But what is for sure is that Eurocentrics have an obession with the children of Ham and areas surrounding their location. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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