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[QUOTE]Originally posted by BrandonP: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Swenet: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by BrandonP: [qb] To play devil's advocate, do we actually know that those Arabian populations were "cushi" based on their skin tone? I don't doubt that there were still very dark-skinned people in parts of Arabia during the Bronze Age (e.g. the Shulamite woman in the Song of Songs book), but isn't the Hebrew word for "black" or "dark" supposed to be something like [i]shakhor[/i] rather than [i]cushi[/i]? [/qb][/QUOTE]The way I see it, they were described as Cushite because they were thought to be descendants of patriarch Cush, whose descendants happened to have dark skin. This is different from saying they were called Cushites because they had dark skin. Hebrews filtered their 'anthropology' through the Table of Nations and likely used overriding reasons mostly unknown to us, as far as why some dark skinned population would be thought as Cushite, while others were considered to fall under other Hamite patriarchs, no different from Egyptians not being fooled by dark skin in Asia when they applied 'Nehesy'. [/qb][/QUOTE]Good point there. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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