Blacks in the Bible : the original roots of men and women of color in Scripture
xxiv, 258, [1] pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
9781420899214, 142089921X
1285431524
Introduction: Paradise lost?
Eden's location according to scripture
Chapter One: In the beginning
Adam, although not black, was the first African
Shem, Ham, and Japheth: Fathers of the Mongoloid, Negroid, and Causasoid races and the coloring of man
Ham, father of the black races
Nimrod, father of civilization
Mizraim, father of the Egyptians
Chapter Two: The sexual sins of our fathers and mothers
Canaan, the cursed
Black concubines in Jewish ancestry
Potiphar's wife, the seducing seductress
Prince Shechem, a man of unrestrained passion
Rahab the harlot, a great ancestor of Jesus Christ
Chapter Three: Jews race mix with Africans: Family matters
Asenath, Joseph's African wife
Pharaoh's daughter, Thermuthis passed Moses off as being black
Zipporah, married the writer of the first five books of the Bible
Chapter Four: Blacks and Jewish interactions
Kidnapped black virgins saved the Jewish tribe of Benjamin from extinction
The world's strongest man's weakness for black women
Chapter Five: Noble and infamous black men
Goliath, the most famous giant of all time
Two of the Jews' holiest sites were purchased from black men
Obededom the Gittite, "The blessing of the Lord maketh rich"
Uriah the Hittite, murdered for beauty
Chapter Six: Wise and beautiful black queens
King Solomon's black but beautiful bride, the fairest among women
Queen of Sheba, the wisest woman in the world
Jezebel, Queen of Israel, the woman men love to hate
Queen Esther the Benjamite, the Jewess who passed for black
Candace, Queen of the Ethiopians
Hagar and Keturah, powerful black women of the Mideast
Chapter Seven: Black servants of the most high
Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, Jeremiah's best friend
Simon, the Canaanite apostle of Jesus Christ
Phut, founder of Phoenicia home of the seafaring people
Simon of Cyrene, the last man who helped Jesus by carrying his cross
The Ethiopian eunuch, proof positive that salvation is for all nationalities
Chapter Eight: A Bible answers to a color question
The color of sin versus the color of skin