Does anyone here agree that the skin color of the children of Israel especially the tribe of Judah because we know he married a Canaanite woman whose name was Shua (Genesis 38: 2 - 4) their skin color ranged from light brown to jet black but none were eroupean white and if you agree to this when was the identity stolen and why?
Please don't say i'm racist for asking this question because I'm not, no more so than all those who have portrayed these same people as eruopean white...I'm only a truth seeker, seeking the truth...
2007-12-22 23:39:41 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Can't think it would have been anything than some shade(s) of brown.
2007-12-22 23:51:06 · answer #1 · answered by za 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There was a saying going round that Moses may have been black because they thought it was that they were dark in those days (not neccessarily black) then became lighter generation after generation. Israel.
Who knows though.
2007-12-23 07:43:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The idea that the descendants of Canaan were black comes from a racist theory, and a confusion of the story of Canaan and that of Cain.
Cain was given a "mark" to keep people from trying to kill him for killing his brother. Why God was trying to protect a murderer isn't clear.
Noah has a son named Ham. Noah got mad at Ham, and cursed his son Canaan. The curse was that Canaan's descendants would be the slaves of his brother's descendants.
When Africans were being enslaved, people who owned them tried to find a Biblical justification for it. They said that they must be the descendants of Canaan, and the mark (again, wrong story) was dark skin.
2007-12-23 08:27:00 · answer #3 · answered by Robin W 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no, canaanites would have been the same color as the other middle-eastern people.
sorry no black israelites... the reason we see so many portrayed in art as being european looking is because for so many years the art was coming out of europe and they were portraying the biblical characters in a way that was familiar to them and not going for accuracy in their depictions
2007-12-23 07:48:58 · answer #4 · answered by Andre 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Check THIS out:
http://www.uoregon.edu/~jbloom/race/general/lemba.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews_and_Judaism_in_Africa
2007-12-23 07:44:17 · answer #5 · answered by ☺☻☺☻☺☻ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that Solomon married an Ethiopian woman.
2007-12-23 07:56:33 · answer #6 · answered by Bibs 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no
2007-12-23 08:00:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋