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Cushi (Zephaniah’s father), among other words and names is an ethnonym. Here’s how an ethnonym defined: “an ethnic name ascribed to a people or group; the proper name by which a people or ethnic group is called or known.” – Dictionary.com The following is a complete list of all of the ethnonyms in the Bible…
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More Info Africa, plate Ist., The northwest part / examined and revised by Mr. Bolton — Africa, plate II, The northeast part — Africa, plate IIId., The southwest part — Africa, plate IV, The southeast part. Appears in Postlethwayt’s Universal dictionary of trade. Sources
Source: Wikimedia Commons Creator: Homann Heirs Year: 1743 AD More Info This is a 1743 map released by Homann Heirs that shows The Kingdom of Judah on West Coast of Africa. This map is from Germany. Homann Heirs (1730 – 1848) were a map publishing house based in Nurenburg, Germany, in the middle to late…
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“The Zondervan Controversy” delves into the confusion surrounding a 1967 AD dictionary entry that implies Negroes are not from the line of Ham. Learn more here.
The Black Virgin of Montserrat is found in Catalonia, Spain.
More Info “The Elamites of Mesopotamia appear to have been a negroid people with kinky hair, and to have transmitted this racial type to the Jews and Syrians.1 There is a curliness of the hair, together with a negro eye and full lips, in the portraiture of Assyria which conveys the idea of an evident…
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Source: Google Books Author: James Rennell Mungo Park Publication Date: 1799 AD Dates Referenced: 1795 AD, 1796 AD, and 1797 AD Title: Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed Under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 Pages: 314 – 316 More Info “Exclusive of the…
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Source: Princeton University Creator: Herman Moll Date: 1710 AD Title: To the Right Honourable Charles, Earl of Peterborow and Monmouth, &c This Map of Africa . . . Is Most Humbly Dedicated. More Info The map shows the names Whiddah and Fida, which are alternate spellings for Whydah and Juda. Just above the kingdom of…
More Info “While it was regarded as merely a myth for many years − appearing in several written and oral versions − something striking occurred in the year 880 C.E. that left an imprint on Jewish consciousness for centuries to come. One day, a small, very dark-skinned Jew named Eldad showed up in the Jewish…
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